GUEST SPEAKERS ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-2019 M.A. ADVANCED ENGLISH STUDIES 1.10.2018 (4pm) Dr. Ángel FELICES LAGO WELCOME SESSION Prof. Ángel Felices Lago, Full Professor of English Studies at the University of Granada participates in the Master s WELCOME SESSION on October 1st, with a lecture on Cultural Differences in Business Behaviour: Spanish versus Anglo-Saxon Stereotypes. Ángel Felices Lago is Full Professor of English Studies at the Department of English and German Philology (University of Granada, Spain). He teaches English and Spanish for business and tourism and has given invited talks, lectures and presentations worldwide. His main areas of research range from lexicology, discourse analysis and axiological linguistics to NLP applied to LSP. He has co-authored or co-edited 10 scholarly books or textbooks and has also published over 80 scholarly articles and reviews in specialized national and international journals and collections. He has served as invited reviewer or member on the editorial and scientific boards of a dozen journals and has also taken part in various international academic projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education or the European Union (Tempus, Leonardo, Erasmus, Erasmus-Mundus, etc.) 26.10.2018 Dr. Pascual CANTOS Dr. Pascual Cantos, Full Professor of English at the University of Murcia, participates in the module Applied Corpus Linguistics on October 26 th, with a lecture on Quantification in Corpus Linguistics. Dr. Pascual Cantos is Full Professor of English at the University of Murcia. He is an expert in the use of quantification and statistics in Corpus Linguistics. He is President of the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO) and director of the Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science.
7.11.2018 Dr. Elena ORTELLS MONTÓN Dr. Elena Ortells Montón, Associate Professor of English at the Universitat Jaume I, participates in the module North-American Fiction of Resistance: History, Memory and Trauma on November 7th, with a lecture on American Fiction after 9/11: Trauma and Resistance. Elena Ortells Montón is Associate Professor of English at the Department of English Studies of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, Spain. She is also the Head of the Department of English Studies. She has published articles in Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Culture, Language and Representation, Atlantis, and English Teaching: Practice and Critique, among other journals. Books published include La verdadera historia del cautiverio y la restitución de Mary Rowlandson. Traducción, estudio crítico y notas (2008), Truman Capote, un camaleón ante el espejo (2009) and Prisioneras de salvajes. Relatos y confesiones de mujeres cautivas de indios norteamericanos (2012). 8.11.2018 Dr. Paula GARCÍA RAMÍREZ Dr. Paula García Ramírez, Associate Professor of English at the University of Jaén, participates in the module Shapes of Hope: Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, on November 8th, with a lecture on Utopia Falls Apart : Political Degradation in the New African Republics as portrayed in Chinua Achebe s Narrative. Dr. Paula García is Associate Professor of English at the University of Jaén. She has directed two Ph.D. dissertations on African fiction, decolonisation, political corruption, and survival. Her own Ph.D.Dissertation is entitled La Narrativa Nigeriana en Lengua Inglesa: Chinua Achebe o el Reverso de la Utopía. She has been a guest researcher at the University of Leeds and at Harvard University (Real Colegio Complutense). 12.11.2018 Dr. Ángela ALMELA SÁNCHEZ-LAFUENTE Dr. Ángela Almela Sánchez-Lafuente, Associate professor of English at the University of Jaén, participates in the module Research Methods and Resources in Linguistics, on November 12th, 2018. Dr. Ángela Almela earned her PhD with distinction and her MA in English Language and Linguistics at Universidad de Murcia. She has taught language and linguistics at the Catholic University San Antonio and at the University Center of Defense at the Spanish Air Force Academy. Since 2017, she has been an Associate Professor at Universidad de
Murcia, where she is currently teaching corpus and computational linguistics, language in the law, and applied linguistics. She also serves as the Deputy Head of her Department. Her lines of research include forensic linguistics, computational/corpus linguistics, and specialized translation, within which she has published several articles in journals, conferences, and book chapters, several of them in top indexed journals. Furthermore, she has been involved in research projects with Indra Software Labs S.L.U. and Universidad Carlos III, among others. She has been a visiting scholar at IULMA Universidad de Valencia, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and Institute for Linguistic Evidence (US-DE). Furthermore, Dr. Almela is the Director of Research of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence. 14.11.2018 Dr. Rosa LORÉS Dr. Rosa Lorés, from the University of Zaragoza, participates in the module Interpersonal Communication across Genres on November 14 th, with a lecture on Interpersonality in Academic Genres. Dr. Rosa LORÉS is a senior lecturer at the Department of English and German Studies (University of Zaragoza). Her research focuses on the rhetorical and lexicogrammatical features in written academic genres mainly from a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspective. She has edited books in international publishers and research articles in indexed journals such as English for Specific Purposes, Text&Talk, or Languages in Contrast, among others. 12.12.2018 Jorge PICÓ PUCHADES Jorge Picó Puchades, Independent Scholar, participates in the module Literature, Art and Performance in Anglophone Cultures on December 12 th, with a lecture on I Find Plays Help Me Think": Directing The Love of the Nightingale. Jorge Picó Puchades holds a Degree in English Philology from the University of Valencia; a Degree in Dramatic Arts from ESAD (València) and a Degree from l École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris). He has taught at ESAD (València) and at Institut del Teatre (Barcelona). He teaches in the Master's Degree on Theatre in Education (Valencia University). He is Artistic Director of Ring de Teatro where he writes and directs his own works, which have been performed at Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Théâtre Rond Point (Paris), Teatro de la Abadía (Madrid), Teatre Lliure, CNA (México), Festival Iberoamericano (Bogotá), Timbre 4 (Buenos Aires) and Bats Theatre (Wellington).
5.2.2019 Dr. Santiago GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ-CORUGEDO Dr. Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo, Full Professor of English Studies at the University of Oviedo, participates in the module Editing English Literary Texts on February 5th, with a lecture on Spenser s The Shepheardes Calender and Some Bookes of Ayres: Examples of Some Editorial Practices and Decision-Taking. Dr. Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo, Full Professor of English Studies at the University of Oviedo, has taught Ph.D. courses on research methods at numerous universities, in and outside Spain. He is a member of numerous editorial/advisory boards of academic journals and the author of the Anthology of Middle English Texts for the Oxford University Text Archive. He has also served at the Ministry of Education s ANECA and has been Consul of Education and Science at the Consulate General of Spain in Miami and Education and Science Commissioner at the Embassy of Spain in Australia, New Zealand, among other countries. 11.2.2019 Dr. Begoña BELLÉS FORTUÑO Dr. Begoña Bellés Fortuño, from the UJI, participates in the module Communication in Specialsed Domains on February 11 th, with a lecture on Clinical Communication in Multilingual Settings: a Discourse Analyst Perspective. Dr. Begoña Bellés Fortuño, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. She is currently the Director of the Interuniversity Institute of Modern Applied Languages (IULMA) at Universitat Jaume I. Her research interests are focused on Discourse Analysis, and more concretely, academic discourse both written and spoken, as well as on Discourse of Medicine and clinical setting communication encounters.
21.3.2019 Dr. Carmen PÉREZ SABATER Dr. Carmen Pérez Sabater, from the UPV, participates in the module Discourse in the Media on March 3 rd, with a lecture on The Analysis of Informality in Online Discourse Dr. Carmen Pérez Sabater, PhD., is Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), Department of Applied Linguistics. She is currently working in the field of Comparative Discourse Analysis, Computer-mediated Communication, English for Specific/Academic Purposes and Gender Studies. Her research has been published in prestigious journals such as Ibérica, International Journal of English Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Linguistik Online, RESLA, RSEL, and Written Communication, among others. Since 2014, she has been leading the UPV team of the European project CoMoViWo (Communication in Mobile and Virtual Work). 28.5.2019 (6 pm) Dr. Nuria LORENZO DUS GRADUATION CEREMONY Dr. Nuria Lorenzo Dus, Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Swansea, participates in the Master s GRADUATION CEREMONY on May 28th, with a lecture on English Studies: Developing the skills for socially responsible citizenship in the 21st century. Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus graduated from Valencia University with a BA Hons in English and German Philology before moving to the UK, where she completed at Cardiff University a Masters in Language and Communication and a PhD in Discourse Analysis. Over the next 10 years she progressed from becoming a researcher on a European Union funded research project at Swansea University to being awarded a personal Chair (Cátedra) there in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics. Currently she is responsible for all postgraduate research students at Swansea University whilst also maintaining an international research profile. Several books and over fifty research articles and book chapters later, Professor Lorenzo-Dus is an established expert in applying to contemporary social problems methodologies and theoretical frameworks in Linguistics spanning Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics through to Interactional Sociolinguistics and Multimodality. Her investigation of the intersection of Digital Communication and Criminology has led to invited research presentations in Europe, the USA, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. She works collaboratively with a range of stakeholders (e.g. government, law enforcement, charity sector) in combatting social media use by right-wing extremist and jihadist groups, child sexual predators online and so-called 'dark net' markets. Finally, and always close to her heart, Professor Lorenzo-Dus has collaborated periodically with academic colleagues in the Department of Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de Valencia on research projects into language, gender and discrimination.