Rafael Alejo González, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
RAFAEL ALEJO GONZÁLEZ is a lecturer at the University of Extremadura,
Spain. He has extensive experience in teaching Business English at the Faculty
of Economics and is currently based at the Faculty of Education where he is
involved in courses in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.
Several of his articles have appeared in journals such as Cahiers de Lexicology, the international Journal of the European
association of languages for specific purposes, Ibérica, or the Journal of
Pragmatics. He has also published
books and book chapters dealing with economic language. He also has several
book chapters on the language used by companies, particularly banks, on the web
and has also published several books chapters with Mouton de Gruyer, Continuum
and Cambridge Scholar dealing with other topics in Applied Linguistics. He has
been invited to present his research in universities and other research
institutions such as the University of Michigan, the University of Valencia,
University Jaume I or the University of Évora. He has also been an invited
speaker in international conferences such as the First International Conference
on Internet and Language. He
has been a member of the advisory committee of a number of international
conferences including many of the editions of the international conference of Applied Languages to Science and Technology
and the International AELFE
conferences. He has been the head of a research projects financed by the
Spanish Ministry of Education and is currently leading a project on Content and
Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) funded by the regional educational
authorities in Extremadura.
ANA MARIA OLIVEIRA is coordinate professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic
Institute of Viseu, Portugal. She gives courses in Foreign Language Teaching
and Information Processing in Languages at her own School and at other
Portuguese and foreign universities as well as supervises PhD and Master
students. She publishes articles and book chapters dealing with her experimental
research in the area of language neurosciences. She has been invited to present
her research at a number of universities and other research institutions such
as the Sorbonne, the University of Salamanca, the University of Évora and the
University of Oporto. She has also been a guest speaker and member of the
scientific committee of a number of national and international conferences. Ana
Oliveira is now the head of research projects financed by the Portuguese
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and is currently leading a project
on Humour the Deaf Way: verbal humour
and appreciation mechanisms.
Luís Filipe Sarmento, professional translator
LUÍS FILIPE SARMENTO is a writer, translator and TV
director. He has been a journalist since 1970, a publisher and cinema and video
director. He is also a lecturer in Creative Writing. Some of his texts have
been translated to English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese,
Japanese, Romanian, Macedonian and Croatian. He produced and directed the first
videobook experiment in Portugal for the TV programme ‘Acontece’ for seven
years. Luis Sarmento is a member of the International
P.E.N. Club, of the Portuguese
Association of Writers and of the International
Committee of World Congress of Poets; he was an international coordinator
of the Organization Mondial de Poétes
from 1994 to 1995. He was president of the American-Iberian Association of
Writers from 1999 to 2000. He is the author of several books such
as Trilogia da Noite (1977), Nuvens (1979), Orquestras & Coreografias
(1987), Galeria de um Sonho Intranquilo (1988), Fim de Paisagem (1988),
Fragmentos de uma Conversa de Quarto (1989), Ex Posições (1989), Boca Barroca
(1990), Matinhas, Laudas, Vésperas Completas (1994), Tinturas Alquímicas
(1994), A Intimidade do Sono (1998), A Vida Social dos Ocultistas (2000),
Crónica da Vida Social dos Ocultistas (2007), among others.
Antonio Sáez Delgado, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
ANTONIO SÁEZ DELGADO is a lecturer at the Department
of Linguistics and Literatures at the University of Evora, where he teaches
Spanish Literature, Iberian Literatures and Translation. His main research area
is the study of the relationships between Portuguese and Spanish writers in the
first decades of the 20th century. A writer, researcher and
translator, he has published essays such as Órficos y Ultraístas. Portugal
y España en el diálogo de las primeras vanguardias literarias (1915-1925),
2000; Adriano del Valle y
Fernando Pessoa, apuntes e una amistad, 2002; Corredores de fondo. Literatura en
la Península Ibérica a principios del siglo XX, 2003; 20 Poetas Espanhóis do Século XX,
2003; Espíritus
contemporáneos. Relaciones literarias luso-españolas entre el modernismo y la
vanguardia, 2008; poetry books such as Miradores, 1997; Ruinas, 2001; Dias, Fumo (bilingual edition), 2003; and
journals such as En otra patria, 2005 and Vida errante, 2005. He
is an award winning translator (Giovani Pontiero Translation Award) into
Spanish of works by Portuguese authors such as António Lobo Antunes, Manuel
António Pina, José Gil, Almeida Faria, Fernando Pinto do Amaral, Eduardo Pitta,
Gonçalo M. Tavares, José Luís Peixoto, valter hugo mãe, Fialho de Almeida, Teixeira de
Pascoaes, among others. As
a literary critic, he regularly contributes with Babelia, the cultural supplement
of ElPais newspaper. He is also the Editorial Director of Minotauro, a
label of Edições 70 dedicated to contemporary Spanish narrative, and the
Director of SUROESTE, a journal of Iberian Literatures.
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