Dr. Angelica Maria Silva is an Italian‑Venezuelan–born scholar specializing in linguistics, language pedagogy, and digital approaches to text analysis. She holds degrees in Linguistics, Reading and Writing, and Education, with a focus on academic Spanish reading and writing genres, completed in Chile and Venezuela, respectively.

She currently serves in the Faculty of Arts, Department of Francophone Studies and Languages, where she teaches Introductory Spanish I and II and contributes to curriculum development in language, multimodal learning of Spanish as an additional language, and cultural practices.

From the perspective of Digital Humanities, Dr. Silva has co‑taught courses such as Research and Methodology in Francophone Studies, integrating traditional interpretive methods in literary research with digital tools. Her teaching and research emphasize the productive intersection of close reading and computational text analysis, comparative language studies, and clinical linguistics markers in psychosis (synergistically combining her previous postdoctoral training as research associate at Western University’s Robarts Research Institute and current intellectual interests).

In addition to her pedagogical work, Dr. Silva is a research collaborator in computational linguistics and serves as a lab supervisor in the Writing‑Brain Laboratory within the Faculty of Science at Brandon University. Her interdisciplinary work bridges language, cognition, and digital methodologies, contributing to innovative research and student training across the humanities and sciences.