She is a professor emeritus of Hispanic Studies
at Newcastle University (United Kingdom). She has been an associate professor
at the University of Liverpool. Her fields of work are sociolinguistics and
linguistic anthropology in the Andean region, as well as the Quechua language. Her books include Por los linderos de la lengua.
Ideologías lingüísticas en los Andes (Along the Boundaries of Language:
Linguistic Ideologies in the Andes) (Lima, Instituto de Estudios
Peruanos/Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos/Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú, 2007) and Kawsay Vida. A Multimedia Quechua
Course for Beginners and Beyond (University of Texas Press, 2013).
Furthermore, she is the author of many papers published in specialized
journals. She has taught Quechua at the University of Liverpool and Newcastle
University for several years.
