Jorge Arús-Hita

Jorge Arús Hita, PhD in English Linguistics (2003), has been teaching English language and linguistics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, since 1997. His teaching includes the areas of computational linguistics, contrastive linguistics, e-learning and EFL. His publications include articles on corpus-based typological description, contrastive linguistics and EFL teaching, mostly from a Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective, in various national and international journals and edited volumes. He has also published several papers on e-learning-related topics. He has been copy editor of the English-studies journal Atlantis and coordinator of blended-learning at the School of Philology, UCM where he is currently Associate Dean for Innovation and Technologies. Among his main publications, he is co-author of Systemic-Functional Grammar of Spanish: a Contrastive Study with English (2010, with Julia Lavid and Juan Rafael Zamorano), and co-editor of English Modality. Core, Periphery and Evidentiality (2013, with Juana Marín, Marta Carretero and Joan van der Auwera, Languages for Specific Purposes in the Digital Era (2014, with Tim Read and Elena Bárcena) and The Dynamicity of Communication below, around and above the Clause (2016, with Ben Clarke).

Education

• Master of Arts (M.A.) Villanova University (1994 — 1996)
• Licenciatura UCM (1986 — 1991)