Fitxa persona

Professor of English Philology at the University of Valencia since 2000; he is Director of the Department of English and German, and of UVEG's Expert in International Legal English degree program. He is the Coordinator of Nau Gran English studies and has directed the Master's degree in Advanced English Studies. He has four six-year periods of research and transfer and six five-year periods of teaching. (Docentia score: 200/200).
He was Education Attaché at the Consulate General of Spain in Miami and Education and Science Advisor at the Spanish Embassy in Washington DC and at the Spanish Embassy in Ottawa. In the foreign service, he negotiated and signed more than 100 Memoranda of Understanding and Cooperation Programs between Spain, the US, and Canada on education and science. He promoted the creation of the International Studies Charter High School in Miami, the ISA (International Spanish Academies) bilingual project, postdoctoral fellowship programs at American universities, and the program of American lecturers (language and culture assistants) for Spanish bilingual schools.
He holds a degree in English Philology (University of Granada, with special UGR award and national end-of-degree award). Doctor cum laude (University of Bologna-Royal College of Spain) and Diploma (honors) in TEFL and translation studies (University of Salford); he has been a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Delaware, among other universities. He has also been PI of  research projects in Spain (on the development of mentoring, Thomas More's Utopia, utopia and the construction of national identities in Europe, etc.). He is the author of more than 100 works, published in Spain, the United States, Germany, Italy, and France.
His teaching experience includes medieval and Renaissance English literature, utopian/dystopian literature, legal English, English for criminology, oral communication, and varieties of English. He has taught classes on the language of competition law to European judges and prosecutors as part of the EU National Judges Training Program, within the framework of the Defcomcourt project. He has supervised eleven doctoral theses, all of which received the highest marks, and three others are currently in progress.
He is a member of the advisory board of the journal Utopian Studies (Penn State University Press) and SELIM, among others. He is a manuscript reviewer for Bloomsbury Publishing, DeGruyter, AEDEAN, Epos, etc.; he has been an external expert advisor on several programs of the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) and a member of the Ministry of Education's committee of academic experts for the National Plan for the Improvement of Foreign Language Teaching.  He has also provided services as an expert in specialized translation (legal texts) to several universities through OTRI-UVEG. He has been invited as an expert by the US Congress (Congressional Briefing Series, “Official English vs. English Plus: The US Language Policy Debate”) and also by the Education Committee of the Spanish Parliament.
Some of his leading publications can be consulted at ORCID; the following are some recent contributions: “Between necessity and virtue: the teaching of world languages in the US", Madrid, Tecnos; “ ‘Ex nihilo nihil fit’: Dystopian satire in Poe's Mellonta Tauta,” Frankfurt, Peter Lang; El Mundo Estudia Español (El Mundo Estudia Español), MECD-UV; “Our Experience of the Prince of Asturias Chair,” Washington, Georgetown U.P.; “Dystopia deconstructed: applying the triple helix model to a failed utopia,” with Andrea Burgos, Journal of Business Research; “The Shadows of the I World War in A. Huxley's Brave New World,” Valencia, PUV; “Towards a new paradigm in the acquisition of English,” Debates para la Transformación Educativa, Madrid, Consejo Escolar de la CAM; “Crimen atrocissimum: prosecution and punishment of heinous crimes and their representation in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,” Cuadernos del CEMyR-University of La Laguna; The Language of Competition Law, PUV-European Commission, with Carmen Estevan de Quesada; “Ius ad bellum e ius in bello in Thomas More's Utopia. Some interpretative challenges of a 21st-century reading,” Glossae-European Journal of Legal History; The Decline of Koinonia. Dystopia in US Literature, PUV, with A. Burgos. He is also the editor of Thomas More and Spain (PUV).
Among other decorations and awards, he has received the Cross of Alfonso X the Wise and Commander of the Order of Civil Merit; he is an Honorary Professor and Medal of the Society for International Studies (Madrid); he has received several awards from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the Association of Hispanic Universities in the US.