Belén Arias García obtained her MA in Spanish Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She worked for more than five years as a teacher of BA Courses Spanish Proficiency at the University of Amsterdam, developing various courses, syllabi and digital environments for Spanish as a second language. She is currently tutor at AUC and teaches Spanish. Since 2011 she combines her work at AUC with a teaching position at University College Utrecht.