The DELILE members' stays
Professor: Enric Llurda Giménez
Destination: University of Vien
Period of the stay: 22-25 May 2023
Typology of the stay: Visiting profesor stay
Activities: participation in a seminar
Professor: Àngels Llanes Baró
Destination: University of Pretoria, Pretoria (South Africa)
Period of the stay: 26-30 September 2022
Typology of the stay: Teaching Stay, taking part of the Universitat de Lleida’s Eramus+ Exchange Programme with the University of Pretoria.
Professor: Enric Llurda Giménez
Destination: University of Verona, Italy
Period of the stay: from 11 to 14 April 2023
Typology of the stay: Erasmus Training Programme
Professor: Maricel Oró Piqueras
Destination: Università degli Studio di Palermo, Sicília
Period of the stay: from 28 to 31 March 2023
Typology of the stay:: Erasmus+
Activities: Staff Erasmus Exchange stay at the Facoltá de Letteres e Filosofía
Professor: Enric Llurda Giménez
Destination: ICU & Sophia University, Tokio
Period of the stay: from 23 November to 3 December 2022
Typology of the stay: teaching seminars at ICU and Sophia University , Tokio (Japón)
Activities:
Presentation of the following seminars:
- 'Challenges of Englishization of academic institutions in non-English-speaking countries'
- 'Algunas reflexiones sobre el mito del profesorado nativo de lenguas y cómo deshacerse de él'
Professor: Esther Pujolràs Noguer
Destination: University of Pretoria
Period of the stay: 26-30 September 2022
Typology of the stay: Teaching and Research Stay. The teaching stay is part of the Universitat de Lleida’s Eramus+ Exchange Programme with the University of Pretoria.
Activities: Dr Pujolràs-Noguer delivered the first Eng 120 lectures of the final quarter, on the intense and ongoing debates surrounding the critical reception of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, as part of Prof Corinne Sandwith’s lectures on the novella. Dr Pujolràs-Noguer’s lectures focused in particular on Chinua Achebe’s still-remarkable essay, ‘An Image of Africa’, Edward Said’s PhD thesis and later reflections, and a thought-provoking interview with Achebe conducted by Caryl Phillips.
On 29th September, the English Department held its first departmental research seminar since the onset of the pandemic, with international guest speakers. Dr Esther Pujolràs Noguer from the University of Lleida, and her colleague Dr Felicity Hand, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona presented a research paper. The presentation, ‘Mourning and Resilience in Indian Ocean Life Writing’, introduced their co-authored book project of the same name.
Professor: Àngels Llanes Baró
Destination: University of Southampton
Period of the stay: 1 April -30 June 2022
Typology of the stay: Research
Activities: During her stay at the University of Southampton, professor Àngels Llanes designed, together with professor Laura Domínguez, a test to measure the grammar development of university students who participate in an Erasmus program in a country where English is used as a lingua franca.
Professor: Núria Mina Riera
Destination: University of Victoria (Canada)
Period of the stay: 1-30 June 2022
Typology of the stay: Research stay connected to her PhD dissertation (Scholarship awarded by the International Council for Canadian Studies)
Activities: A number of interviews with Lorna Crozier, author whose poetry Mina-Riera examines in her PhD dissertation, and with professors of Canadian literature on Crozier’s poetic work. Participation in the ALECC 2022 conference, 15-18 June, University of Saskatchewan, with a paper entitled “The Non-Human World as Teacher in Crozier’s Poetry.”
Professor: Enric Llurda Giménez
Destination: Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
Period of the stay: 2-6 May 2022
Typology of the stay : Erasmus+ Training
Activities: During his visit to Laurea University of Applied Sciences,invited by principal lecturer Taina Vuorela, professor Enric Llurda could share time with students and instructors at the Masters in Project Management, and had the opportunity to learn about the methodology of "Learning by developing" used at this institution.
Professor: Kateřina Valentová
Destination: University of Palacký, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Period of stay : 1 January - 1 March 2022
Typology of the stay : Research
Activities: Dr. Valentová has carried out a research stay in the field of comic studies, under the supervision of Professo Martin Foret. During this stay, she has conducted two conferences on graphic narratives:Carlos Giménez as the chronicler of Spanish history, and History of graphic narratives and tools of analysis.
Professor: Àngels Llanes Baró
Destination: University of Crete (Greece)
Period of the stay: 26 September - 1 October de 2021
Typology of the stay : Erasmus+ Training
Activities: Dr. Llanes has participated in teacher training program on Academic and Scientific Writing.
PhD research assistant: Júlia Calvet Terré
Destination: University of Vienna (Austra)
Period of the stay: 1 September - 30 Novembre 2021
Typology of the stay: Training stay
Activities: Stay at the University of Vienna, under the guidance of Dr. Ute Smit, a reference in the study of implementation and teaching in English at the university. The main objective of the stay is to gain knowledge about English as a medium of instruction and as a lingua franca in the university environment, as well as to make contact with other PhD students and to get to know the research that is being undertaken within the English department.
Professor: Enric Llurda Giménez
Destination: University of Southampton (UK)
Period of the stay: August-Decembre 2021
Typology of the stay: Program 'Salvador de Madariaga 2019'
Activities: Dr. Enric Llurda has carried out a research stay at the Centre for Global Englishes, led by Dr. Will Baker. During this stay, he has taught some seminars and participated in meetings and other research activities.
Part-time Adjunct Professor: Diana Rodríguez Bonet
Destination: University of Chichester (United Kingdom)
Period of the stay: 29 June - 15 August 2021
Typology of the stay: Research stay
Activities: Research on fairy tales and folklore under the supervision by Dr. Paul Quinn. Interview British author Sally Gardner about her fairy tales’ rewritings.
Professor: Josep Maria Cots Caimons
Destination: University of Stirling (UK)
Period of the stay: 1 June - 31 July 2021
Typology of the stay: Research stay
Activities: The stay involved collaborative research with Professors Angela Creese and Fiona Copland on the connections between multilingualism and internationalisation policies at university and the development of possible strategies to promote multilingualism and interculturality among both academic staff and students.
