UPDATED TO 2011 JESÚS ÁNGEL GONZÁLEZ PERSONAL DATA Date of Birth: 10/15/1962 Address: Departamento de Filología, Universidad de Cantabria, Av. Los Castros s/n, Santander, Cantabria (SPAIN) E-mail: gonzalezja@unican.es Personal website: http://personales.unican.es/gonzalezja/ Tel. 34-942201256, 34-647-391119 Marital status: married (3 children) EDUCATION 2000: Ph. D. Degree in English, University of Salamanca, Spain. 1997: M.A. in Film Studies, University of Valladolid, Spain. 1987: M.A. in Spanish, the Pennsylvania State University, USA. GPA 4.00 /4.00. 1985: B.A. in English
with minors in Spanish and in Teaching Methodology
(Certificado de Aptitud
Pedagógica). University of Salamanca, Spain. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2011- present: Associate Professor (“Profesor Titular”), University of Cantabria, Spain 2009 (Summer): Visiting Fellow, UCLA, USA 2005 (Summer): Visiting Fellow, Yale University, USA. 2002-2010: Assistant Professor (“Profesor Asociado”, “Profesor Ayudante Doctor”), University of Cantabria 2000-2002: Assistant Professor in the Ph. D. program, University of Cantabria, Spain. 1988-2010: English Teacher at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas (a Government network of Foreign Language Schools for adults) in Santander, Spain. 1995 (Summer): Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. 1987-1988: English Teacher at the Fermín Caballero High School in Madrid, Spain. 1986-1987: Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish, the Pennsylvania State University. Instructor in the Summer Pedagogical Institute for Teachers, summer 87. 1985: Spanish Language Assistant at four High Schools in Northern Ireland, on the official scheme administered by the United Kingdom Education Department. MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS Literature: North-American Literature, Film and Literature, The Detective Novel and Film Noir, Western Literature and Post-Western Cinema Applied Linguistics: Curriculum Development based on the Common European Framework (Council of Europe), Using the European Language Portfolio (from the Council of Europe) in the language classroom, CLIL at University