María López Sández

María López Sández (Lugo, September 17, 1973) is a Galician philologist and essayist.

She graduated from IES Lucus Augusti [gl] 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, A descrición topográfica, o seu papel na construción dun imaxinario cultural no discurso literario galego ("Cantares gallegos", "Arredor de si" e o ciclo textual de "Tagen Ata").

[3] Lopez taught in secondary education at Centro público integrado [gl] (CPI) Fonte Díaz, Touro, Spain and at Instituto de Educación Secundaria [es] (IES) Xulián Magariños [gl] in Negreira.

She delivered her induction speech Onde abrolla o manancial: a paisaxe na raíz do ensaísmo galego (Where the spring flows: the landscape at the root of the Galician essay).