About
Anais Holgado Lage (Ph.D. University of Salamanca 2014) is a Senior Lecturer of Spanish in Princeton University, where she started working in Fall 2015. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics with a dissertation thesis that focused on Pragmatics and Discourse Markers and how to teach them in a second language setting. The core of her dissertation has become the Dictionary of Discourse Markers for Students of Spanish (Peter Lang, 2018). She is currently working on expressions of negation in Mexico and Central America. Other research interests include second language teaching, technology-enhanced learning and creole languages. During her years at Princeton, she has designed, taught and coordinated a variety of courses in the Spanish Program and a Freshman Seminar.
Alongside her academic career, Holgado Lage has pursued literary writing from an early age. In 2005, she received second prize in the First International Short Story Competition organized by CRAPE Sociedad Cooperativa for Búsqueda y captura de un guante, subsequently published by the organizers. Her short fiction has since appeared in literary magazines and journals. In late 2025, her novel Adonde no llega la luz received a special mention in the Second Erotic and Romantic Literature Competition organized by Berez Haziku.
Holgado Lage continues to develop fiction and screenwriting projects while balancing her literary work with teaching and research. She shares updates on her writing and publications on Instagram at @anais.lage.
