Elia Saneleuterio is a faculty member (Profesora Titular /Associate Professor) at the Department of Language and Literature Teaching at the University of Valencia, Spain. She received her Ph.D. cum laude, in 2011. Previously, she graduated in Spanish Philology and Education and she also earned her master’s degree in Specific Didactics Research (Language and Literature Teaching).

She was a Visiting Scholar at the Università di Bologna (Italy) (2009), Uniwersytet Wrocławski (Poland) (2012), University of California, Berkeley (USA) (2016), Universidade do Minho (Portugal) (2017), Universidad Católica Boliviana (Bolivia) (2017), Rutgers University, Newark (USA) (2018) and Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France) (2019), among others.

Her earlier research focused on Spanish Poetry, field where she contributed with many lectures and scholar papers. More recently, she has focused on the study of assessment in Higher Education, cooperative learning, collaborative review processes, teaching and learning of spelling, vocabulary, grammar… (in Spanish as L1). She is also currently conducting research about literary education, symbolism in literature, character constructions, children's animation movies, etc.

She is the director of the research group TALIS and also of several international conferences (XXIX AEGS, CICELI).