Professor Silvia Pappe Willenegger studied Cultural Journalism at the School for Applied Linguistics in Zurich, Switzerland, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Ibero-American Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

She is currently a Full-Time Professor at the Department of Humanities of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Azcapotzalco Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), where she has been Divisional Coordinator of Dissemination and Publications from 1987 to 1990, Head of the Editorial Section from 1990 to 1994, Coordinator of the Master in Historiography of Mexico from 2003 to 2007 and of the Graduate Program in Historiography from 2007 to 2011 and 2017 to 2019.