Dr. Adriana Diaz is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, where she also serves as Director of Teaching and Learning for the Spanish Major, within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Born in Argentina, she lives and works on the unceded lands of the Turrbal and Jagera Peoples. With over two decades of experience in multilingual and intercultural education, her work explores the intersections of language, power, and pedagogy. She critically examines colonial, patriarchal, and monolingual structures in curricula and classrooms, promoting inclusive, empowering, and critically reflexive pedagogies that honor plurality and relationality. Influenced by critical pedagogy, intersectional feminism, and decolonial thought, Diaz collaborates with educators to reimagine language learning in equitable and generative ways.

Diaz earned her Doctor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and Bachelor of Arts from Griffith University. Her prolific scholarship includes authoring textbooks such as JUNTXS: Introductory Spanish (University of Queensland, 2021) and +JUNTXS: Intermediate Spanish (University of Queensland, 2021), as well as Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education: Theory and Practice (Multilingual Matters, 2013). She co-edited Tertiary Language Teacher-Researchers Between Ethics and Politics: Silent Voices, Unseized Spaces (Routledge, 2020). Recent journal articles include "The (im)possibility of breaking the cycle of rippling circularities affecting Australian language education programs: a Queensland example" (2023), "Gender neutral and non-binary language practices in the Spanish language classroom" (2022), and "Coloniality, neoliberalism and the language textbook" (2020). She has secured funding through the UQ Early Career Researcher grant (2018-2019) and UQ Teaching Innovation Grants (2016-2018). As a PhD supervisor, she advises on topics like intercultural capability, language retention in Queensland, early literacy policies, and diversity perceptions. Her research fields span applied linguistics, educational linguistics, sociolinguistics, and other European languages, with a focus on critical decolonial language pedagogies, intercultural language learning, and critical translation studies.

Professional Email: a.diaz@uq.edu.au