Araceli Fernández Recio has a degree in History of Art from the Complutense University of Madrid and did a Masters in Heritage Management at the Instituto Universitario de la Fundación Ortega-Marañon in Madrid. She has taught courses on Spanish art to pupils form the US universities of Notre Dame, Minnesosta, Ohio, Chicago and Princeton and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Minnesota. She is senior lecturer in History of Art at the Escuela Superior de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales de Madrid. Her current research centres around applied art and the history of books.