2014 - present Emerita Full Professor, Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de la Mujer, U. Autónoma de Madrid
2008 - 2014 Researcher (on secondment, "Comisión de Servicios" in Spanish), Institute for Language, Literature and Anthropology, Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Institute director, 2011 - 2014
2004 - 2007 Director General for Research, Ministry of Education and Science, Government of Spain
1988 - 2014 Full Professor of Spanish Language (Catedrática numeraria), Department of Spanish Philology, U. Autónoma de Madrid
1989 (three months) Visiting Professor, El Colegio de México (Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios)
1988 (three months) Visiting professor, University of Minnesota (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
1980 - 1988 Lecturer in Spanish Language with tenure (Profesora adjunta numeraria), Dept. of Spanish Language, U. Autónoma de Madrid
1975 - 1980 Lecturer in Spanish Language (Profesora adjunta interina, profesora agregada interina). Department of Spanish Language, U. Autónoma de Madrid
1973 - 1975 Instructor (Profesora encargada de curso), Department of Spanish Language, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2022 Honorary doctorate, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
2017 - 2019 Member of the Scientific Board of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación [National Research Council]] by appointment of the Secretary of State for Research
2015 Corresponding member, Real Academia Española
2015 - 2018 Member of the Scientific Board for the EU Program COST
2014 National Research Prize in Humanities (Premio Nacional de Investigación en Humanidades "Ramón Menéndez Pidal"), awarded by the Spanish government for scientific merit
2007 Commander with plaque, Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise, awarded by the Spanish Government for activities in the fields of education, science, culture, higher education, and research
2004 Spanish representative to the Standing Committee for the Humanities-ESF
1993 (three months) Visiting researcher, University of Southern California, LA (Department of Linguistics) (awarded by the Spanish Government)
1984 - 1985 (one year) Visiting scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Department of Linguistics, with a Fullbright fellowship for distinguished researchers)