Martínez Lillo is an Arabist and Literary Translator. She is a professor at the Universidad de Malaga and the Coordinator of the Area of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Greek Philology, Arabic Studies, General Linguistics, Documentation and Latin Philology.
Martinez Lillo has taught at a variety of academic centers and universities in Egypt, Italy, Chile, and Uzbekistan. She is a member of the Research Group HUM108: CONTEMPORARY ARAB STUDIES (EEAACC) at the Universidad de Granada.
She has written extensively on Arabic and Latin American literatures and has published several translations of Arabic prose and poetry in Spanish. For a list of her publications please click here.