Aldina Quintana is a professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies (formerly Spanish & Latin American Studies). She is also an associate faculty member in the Department of General Linguistics. Specialised in Spanish Philology, Ibero-Romance Languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), her research and teaching focus on historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and language variation of Spanish and Judeo-Spanish.

She holds an M.A. in Spanish Philology and Geman Philology from the Freie Universität Berlin and PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before she joined the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University in 2009, she was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Women’s Group of the Mexican Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Research Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Prof. Aldina Quintana has been a Corresponding Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) member since 2015, highlighting her contribution to Spanish and Ladino linguistics.

Research Interests: Spanish linguistics, History of the Ibero-Romance languages, Spanish sociolinguistics and variation, Dialects and Languages in Contact, Sephardic Studies and Judeo-Spanish, Corpus Linguistics.