MIGUEL
MARTINEZ LOPEZ

Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Valencia and Chair of the Department of English and German Philology (2012–2018; 2024–present). He also directs the continuing education program “Expert in International Legal English.” He serves as literature coordinator for the Nau Gran program (Valencia and Gandía) and English coordinator for Nau Gran at Obert. He directed the Master’s Program in Advanced English Studies (2018–2024). He served as Education Attaché at the Consulate General of Spain in Miami and as Commissioner for Education and Science at the Spanish embassies in Washington, D.C., and Ottawa (2001–2008). During this period he negotiated and signed more than one hundred memoranda of understanding and cooperation programs in education and science between Spain, the United States, Canada, and the United Nations. He promoted the creation of the Miami Institute of International Studies; the ISA (International Spanish Academies) program for bilingual schools in the United States and Canada; postdoctoral fellowships for Spanish researchers at American and Canadian universities; programs for U.S. and Canadian teachers at Spanish bilingual schools; and internship programs at companies in both countries. He holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Granada (with honors and national distinction), a PhD (cum laude) from the University of Bologna–Reale Collegio di Spagna, and a Diploma with honors in TEFL and Translation from the University of Salford (UK). He was a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and a visiting professor at the University of Delaware, among other European and North American universities. He has directed a research group and served as principal investigator on projects on mentoring, Thomas More’s Utopia, and utopia in the construction of national identities in Europe. He is the author of about one hundred publications in Spain, the United States, Germany, and Italy on utopian literature, medieval and Renaissance English literature, foreign language acquisition, and legal English. He has taught seminars on competition law English to European judges and prosecutors within the EU National Judges Training Program and on legal English at IVAP for judicial administration staff. He has supervised eleven doctoral theses and currently supervises five more. He has completed four six-year research periods, six five-year teaching periods, and obtained a Docentia score of 200/200. He serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Utopian Studies and SELIM and has reviewed manuscripts for Bloomsbury Publishing, DeGruyter, Atlantis, Epos, Philologica Canariensia, and English Studies. He has collaborated on several ANECA programs and served on the Ministry of Education’s committee of academic experts for the National Plan for the Improvement of Foreign Language Teaching (2010). He has also worked as an expert in specialized translation and participated, in that capacity, in the U.S. Congress (Congressional Briefing Series, “Official English vs. English Plus: The US Language Policy Debate”) and in the Education Committee of the Spanish Congress of Deputies. He has received the Commendation of the Order of Civil Merit and the Cross of Alfonso X the Wise. He is an honorary professor and has been awarded the medal of the Society of International Studies (Madrid) as well as distinctions from the AATSP, ACTFL, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, together with medals from Georgetown University, Miami-Dade Public Schools, and the Texas Education Agency. He currently chairs the international committee of the Céline Dauverd Endowed Grant of the Mediterranean Studies Association.