María López Sández

María López Sández (Lugo, 17 September 1973) is a Galician philologist and essayist. She is an academic numerary of the Royal Galician Academy (RAG).

Education She graduated from and obtained a degree in Hispanic, English and Galician-Portuguese Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USD). She received her doctorate in Literary theory and comparative literature from this university with the thesis, (Topographic description, its role in the construction of a cultural imaginary in the Galician literary discourse - "Cantares Galicians", "Arredor de si" and the textual cycle of "Tagen Ata") (2006). She received the End of Education Career Award of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, and the National Award for Completion of University Studies in Philology.

Career and research Lopez taught in secondary education at (CPI) Fonte Díaz, Touro, Spain and at (IES) in Negreira. Her work as a researcher focuses on the relationship between Galician literature and landscape imagery and urban space, as well as the study of cartography as a semiotic of space. She is the author of articles and studies on Rosalía de Castro. She has participated in international congresses with reports on Castro.

In 2022, she was elected an academic numerary of RAG. On 11 March 2023, she delivered her induction speech (Where the spring flows: the landscape at the root of the Galician essay).

Awards and honours 2023, Premio 8 de Marzo 2020, Finalist, Raíña Lupa Award, for

Selected works in Galician Essays Paisaxe e nación. A creación discursiva do territorio (2008), Galaxia Movendo os marcos do patriarcado, co-author with Marilar Aleixandre, 2021 Translated into Spanish by the authors themselves.

Narratives A forma das nubes (2012)., Galaxia. Second edition, 2014. O faro escuro (2015), Galaxia A noite da deusa (2020), Galaxia, Costa Oeste

Collective works Libres e vivas (2021), Galaxia