Marian Amengual-Pizarro holds a B.A. in English and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (2003) from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Her doctoral research focused on rater reliability in evaluating second language compositions. She is a full professor of English in the Department of Spanish, Modern, and Classic Philology (English Philology) at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). From 2011 to 2020, she served as Vice-Dean for English Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the UIB. She was Secretary of AEDEAN (Spanish Association for English and American Studies) from 2010 to 2015 and served two three-year terms (from 2003 to 2008) as the ‘Language Teaching’ Panel Coordinator for AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada).

Marian has been a visiting professor at several universities, including Radboud University (The Netherlands), Lund University (Sweden), and the University of Pisa (Italy). She has participated in numerous funded national research projects on second language testing, teaching, and learning. From 2015 to 2024, she was editor of the Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada (RAEL), a journal of AESLA indexed in JCR, Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, and FECYT, among others. She has edited several books and published numerous articles in refereed national and international journals, including English Studies, Springer, Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, The European Journal of Teacher Education, Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics (VIAL), International Journal of English Studies (IJES), and ATLANTIS: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies.

Currently, she serves as the Director of UIBIdiomes (UIB School of Languages). Since 2003, Marian has coordinated the English Test for the Spanish University Admission Examination (PAU) at the University of the Balearic Islands. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in grammar, pragmatics, discourse analysis, teaching, learning, and assessment of second languages, as well as applied linguistics. She is currently teaching English Pragmatics and Discourse (undergraduate, 4th year English Studies), an M.A. course in Applied Linguistics, and supervising various end-of-year undergraduate projects.