Fitxa persona

Professor of English Studies at the University of Valencia. He has served as Director of the Department of English and German Philology and is currently Director of the University of Valencia MA in Advanced English Studies, Director of the University of Valencia Expert in International Legal English and Nau Gran English language program coordinator. He has received 4 six-year research/transfer quality awards and 6 five-year teaching quality awards. Docentia score: 200/200.
He served as an Education Attaché at the Consulate General of Spain in Miami, as Education and Science Commissioner at the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC, and at the Embassy of Spain in Ottawa. In the Spanish foreign service, he negotiated and signed over a hundred Memoranda of Understanding and Cooperation Programs between Spain, the USA and Canada in the fields of education and science. He promoted the creation of the International Studies Charter High School in Miami, the project of bilingual ISA (International Spanish Academies), postdoctoral fellowship programs in North American universities and North American TAs (language and culture assistants) for Spanish bilingual schools.
    BA and MA in English (University of Granada). University of Granada Award for Academic Excellence, and National Award–University Studies in the Humanities; PhD cum laude (University of Bologna-Royal College of Spain) and Diploma with honours in TEFL and translation studies (University of Salford); Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale University; Visiting Professor at the University of Delaware, etc. He has also served as IP of research projects on mentorship development, Thomas More’s Utopia, utopia and the building of national identities in Europe, etc.). Author of more than one hundred works, published in Spain, the USA, Germany, Italy and France.
    His teaching experience includes English Medieval and Renaissance literature, utopian / dystopian literature, legal English, English for law enforcement, oral communication and varieties of English. He has taught on the language of competition law to European judges and prosecutors within the Training of National Judges Program of the EU. He has directed nine doctoral dissertations, all of which received the highest mark, and four more are in progress.
    He is a member, among others, of the advisory board of the Journals Utopian Studies  (Penn State University Press), SELIM, etc., and is a reviewer for Bloomsbury Publishing, DeGruyter, AEDEAN, Epos, etc. ; he has served as external expert advisor in several programs at The National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA) and a member of the committee of academic experts of the Ministry of Education for the National Plan for the Improvement of Foreign Language Teaching.  He has also provided services as an expert in specialized translation of legal texts to several universities through the OTRI-UVEG. Expert guest speaker in the Congressional Briefing Series, US Congress on “Official English vs. English Plus: The US Language Policy Debate,” he has also been invited as an expert by the Education Committee of the Spanish Parliament.
Some of his main publications are listed in ORCID. Recently published works are: “Entre la necesidad y la virtud: la enseñanza de las lenguas del mundo en los EE. UU.,” Madrid, Tecnos; “‘Ex nihilo nihil fit’: Dystopian satire in Poe’s Mellonta Tauta,” Frankfurt, Peter Lang; The World Studies Spanish, Ministry of Education/UV; “Our Experience of the Prince of Asturias Chair,” Washington, Georgetown UP; “Dystopia deconstructed: applying the triple helix model to a failed utopia,” 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, Consejo Escolar de la CAM; “Crimen atrocissimum: enjuiciamiento y castigo de delitos atroces y su representación en Los Cuentos de Canterbury de Geoffrey Chaucer,” Cuadernos del CEMyR-Universidad de La Laguna; The Language of Competition Law, with Carmen Estevan de Quesada, PUV-European Commission; “Ius ad bellum and ius in bello in Thomas More’s Utopia. Some interpretative challenges of a Twenty-first century reading,” Glossae-European Journal of Legal History; El Ocaso de Koinonia. La Distopía en la Literatura de los EE. UU., PUV, with A. Burgos Mascarell (in press).
    Among other decorations, he has been awarded the Cross of Alfonso X the Sage and the Order of Civil Merit (Commander). Honorary Professor and Medal of the Society of  International Studies (Madrid), he has received awards by the American Society of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Awards (AATSP), the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities of the USA (HACU).