Sara Prieto is Associate Professor at the English Department and member of the Research Institute for Gender Studies. She holds a BA in English Studies from the University of Oviedo and she was a graduate student funded by the Spanish Ministry of Research and Education in the FPI program (2009-2013). She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. She has also taught at the State University of New York and the Universidad Católica de Murcia.

Her main line of research focuses on literary journalism during the First World War and on the study of travel writing in English. She is also interested in contemporary discourses about gender, politics and conflict.

She has been PI of the AWESOME project and she is member of the THALiS research group and the TRANSLIT group from the University of Oviedo. 

She has been president of ASYRAS (Spanish Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies), secretary of the International Society for First World War Studies and adjunct editor of Feminismo/s.