Raquel Vázquez Ramil was born in A Coruña (Spain). After graduating in Geography and History in the University of Santiago de Compostela, she did her PhD with a thesis about The Institución Libre de Enseñanza and the Spanish Women Education: The Residencia de Señoritas of Madrid (1915-1936). She developed a career as a Literary Translator from English into Spanish, with titles as Coraline by Neil Gaiman, The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton, or Journey to a war by C. Isherwood and W.H Auden. At present she works as an Associate Professor of Social Sciences in the CEU Teachers’ Training School of the University of Vigo and Tutor of Contemporary History in A Coruña UNED (Spanish Open University). Raquel Vázquez has participated in several conferences and scientific sessions about History of Education and Women’s History in Spain. Her books include titles as Mujeres y Educación en la España Contemporánea (Madrid, Akal, 2012), La mujer en la Segunda República Española (Madrid, Akal, 2014) or María de Maeztu. Antología de textos (Madrid, Dykinson, 2015, in collaboration with Professor Ángel Serafín Porto Ucha). Her recent contributions cover: La Residencia de Señoritas de Madrid durante la II República: entre la alta cultura y el brillo social, «Espacio, Tiempo y Educación», 2(1); and Francisco Giner de los Ríos y la educación de la mujer: consideraciones teóricas y perspectiva práctica. «Indivisa. Boletín de Estudios e Investigación», vol. 16, 2016.
