Pilar Escabias Lloret holds a PhD from the University of Alicante, awarded Magna cum laude, with a dissertation supervised by Professor José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo and Professor Teresa Morell Moll as honorary supervisor, entitled A Comparative Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Lecturers' Classroom Initiation Moves in English (EMI) and Spanish (SMI) Medium of Instruction. She earned degrees in English Philology from the University of Alicante and in English and Hispanic Philology from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK), as well as an MLitt in Literature from Aberdeen and a Master’s in Spanish and English as Second Languages from Alicante, for which she received the Special Master’s Award.

Since October 2013, she has been an English instructor at AULAS (Alicante University Language Services) and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of English Philology at the University of Alicante. Between 2006 and 2013, she was an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology, teaching courses in the Master’s in Spanish and English L2/LE, and in Business and Health Spanish tracks of the Master’s in English and Spanish for Specific Purposes. She has also taught in the Master’s in Teaching Spanish as a Second or Foreign Language at the Fundación de la Universidad de La Rioja and collaborated in the International Expert in Specialized Teaching in ELE (EIDELE) program at the University of Salamanca.

In academic management, she served as Head of the Spanish for Foreigners Area and later as Language Coordinator at the Centro Superior de Idiomas (2002–2014) and chaired the Instituto Cervantes Official Spanish Examinations (DELE) for over ten years. Between 1998 and 2002, she was a Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Aberdeen.

She has co-authored Curso de Literatura Española Moderna (Madrid, Edinumen, 2013) and delivered lectures on Spanish and English language, culture, and literature in Spain (Alicante, Madrid, Valencia, Comillas) and abroad (Aberdeen, London, Oxford, Hull, Exeter, Athens, Rostov). Since 2008, she has been a member of the research group Acquisition and Teaching of Second and Foreign Languages (ACQUA), and her research focuses on language and culture didactics, multiple intelligences and affectivity in language learning, teaching Languages for specific purposes, English through content, multimodality, and gender.