Staff
Outline Biography
- Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras (Extremadura)
- MA (Marquette)
- Doctor en Filología Anglogermánica (Extremadura)
- Doctor en Literatura Española (Autónoma Madrid)
I was a profesor asociado at the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain) and an instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College (Wisconsin). I also taught as a tutor at Marquette University (Wisconsin) and as a teaching assistant at Kalamazoo College (Michigan), where I studied English Literature. In 2001 I was conferred the tenured grade of funcionario docente de carrera by the Spanish Ministry of Education. I earned a doctorate in Anglo-Germanic Studies from Extremadura (1999) with a thesis on Charlotte Temple, the first American best-seller, and a second doctorate, in Spanish literature, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2005) with a thesis on the picaresque novel.
I serve in the editorial advisory boards of seven scholarly journals in Denmark, Spain and the US, and have peer-reviewed for journals in Spain, Britain and the US, and for publishers in Britain and the US. In 2003 I won the Universidad de Extremadura Research Prize. I have been a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Aalborg and Copenhagen, and twice an associate researcher at Cambridge.
In 2010-12 I was the Principal Investigator of a Leverhulme International Network, leading a team of fourteen academics from Britain, US, Denmark, Spain, Holland, and Switzerland in a project entitled ‘Unamuno’s Literature and Politics’, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust’s international-network grants scheme.
Research Interests
I have published on:
- The Spanish novel, theatre and poetry from the 16th to the 20th century;
- History of ideas in Modern and Contemporary Spain;
- Comparative Literature (particularly the novel in the Spanish Golden Age and in Augustan England, and Spanish and Scandinavian Modernisms);
- Applied linguistics (intercultural communication, FLT methodologies, politeness studies, and intercultural pragmatics).
Publications
Publications list for J.A.G. Ardila
This article was published on Oct 30, 2012