Patricia Bastida Rodríguez began her academic career with a research scholarship after completing her MA in English Philology, a period in which she was awarded an MA Extraordinary Award and a Doctorate Extraordinary Award for her PhD on the fiction of contemporary British writer Michèle Roberts (February 2002). Her research focuses on contemporary women's writing with specific attention to gender and identity in the Anglophone context and, more recently, (neo)cosmopolitanism and ethnicity in 21st-century diasporic literature.

After a brief period as a lecturer at the University of Oviedo (2001), she held a temporary position as Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands between 2002 and 2009, a position which became permanent in 2009. She has taught courses in Anglophone literatures both at graduate and postgraduate levels, among them British literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, from the origins to Shakespeare and postcolonial literatures, as well as a diversity of courses on gender and writing, a field she has specialised in since her doctoral years. Since 2018 she has been a guest lecturer on several occasions at the Erasmus Mundus MA in Women's Studies from the University of Oviedo.

She has three six-year research periods and more than 40 publications, including articles in top-tier journals such as The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The European Journal of English Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The European Journal of Women's Studies, Atlantis o Feminist Theology. She has authored two books and a number of book chapters, reviews and 5 coedited volumes, among them Nación, diversidad y género. Perspectivas críticas (Anthropos, 2010) and Entre la calma y la inspiración. Diccionario de autores anglófonos en Baleares (Olañeta, 2015).

She has participated in 11 funded research projects supported by a diversity of national and regional institutions, such the Ministry of Science and Universities or the Women's National Institute. She is current a member of the research team in the project 'World-Travelling: Narratives of Solidarity and Coalition in Contemporary Writing and Performance' (PID2021-127052OB-I00, 2022-25). She has been visiting scholar at several foreign universities (University of Sussex, University of the West of England, of Edinburgh, of York) and is a member of two research groups: BRICCS. British and Comparative Cultural Studies (UIB) and Intersecciones: Literaturas, culturas y teorías contemporáneas (University of Oviedo), both included in the Excellence Research Network LEAP 21+, funded by the Spanish Ministry.

She was a member of the Board of Referees of the journal Atlantis (2013-18), in which she was later Copy Editor (2019-21). Since 2012 she is also a member of the Editorial Team of Oceánide (Copy Editor since 2019). She is currently Vice president of SELICUP. She has participated in the organization of several conferences, most of them international, and has presented papers in about 30. She has written reports for Spanish and foreign journals and for ANEP. She has been co-director of the English Studies/Estudis Anglesos book series (Edicions UIB) since its creation in 2008. She was academic secretary of the UIB Dept. of Spanish, Modern and Classical Philology between 2020 and 2024.