Eva Lara Alberola has a doctorate in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Valencia, where she went on to work for four years as an intern with the Ministry of Education and Culture. She has written in various specialist publications, and spoken at conferences, about her research. In 2002 she took part in setting up the Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Literatura Hispánica (ALEPH), subsequently becoming its secretary for two years, including acting as secretary for its first Congress: "Current Lines of Literary Research". In 2005 she won the XVIII Prize for Cervantes Studies from the Cervantes Institute of Madrid. She is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Saint Vincent the Martyr in Valencia, where her teaching focuses on language and literature teaching, and her research theme is "the mother in children's and teen literature, author's work and traditional literature" (supervised by Dr. Morote).