Dr. María Soledad Villarubia Zuniga

Spanish in Economy and Finance
Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae  
  • Doctorate in Medieval Studies, Philology, from the  University of Alcalá (Madrid) (2004)
  • Master’s in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language of University of Alcalá (Madrid) (2002)
  • Master’s in Dictionary Development and Quality Control of the Spanish Lexicon, in the National Distance Education University of Spain (UNED) (2016)
  • Degree in Italian Philology from the Complutense University, (Madrid) (1990)
  • Awarded a pre-doctoral research in the University of Florence (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Italy (November 2000 – June 2001)
  • Comenius Asociation of European Teachers - Amica Project of the European Union (Socrates Agency) (2005)
  • Membership to the Dantologia Complutense Asociation Studies Project in University of Complutense (Madrid) (2000-2002) 
Positions held 
  • 2016 Associate Professor, Spanish and Literature Professor in the Spanish Department, University of Alicante (Valencia)
  • 2007-2015 Spanish Teacher in Cervantes Institute, Goverment agency, in Leeds (United Kingdom).
  • 2008-2015 Visiting Spanish Teacher – Facultaty of Arts, Leeds University (United Kingdom). Spanish, Portuguese and Latino American Studies Deparment
  • 2000-2007 Membership Spanish teacher as a foreign language as CEFRL, International Courses, University of Alcalá (Spain)
  • 2000-2007 Membership Instituto Franklin de investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos & UAH (University of Alcalá (Spain)

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • 2018-2020 Erasmus Coordinator in University of Alicante
  • 2008-2015 Academic Coordinator of Cervantes Institute
  • 2001-2002 Academic Coordinator in the International Curses of Spanish, University of Alcalá
  • 2003-2006 Teacher Support Center of Alcalá, Madrid (Spain)
  • 2005 Teacher Support Center of Guadalajara (Spain)
Invited scholar 
  • 2020 Department of Language Athens University (Greece)
  • 2019 Department of Spanish Studies, Naples (Italy)
  • 2005 Master in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias University
  • 2005 Master in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language,  Santo Domingo – APEC University (República Dominicana) UNILINGUA-UNAPEC Program
Teaching 
  • 2016-2020
    • "Spanish and Literature" in the Degree in Educacion. University of Alicante (Spain)
    • “Word classes” (morfosintactic studies) in the Degree in Spanish Studies, University of Alicante (Spain)
    • “Discourse Analysis” in the Degree in Spanish Studies, University of Alicante (Spain)
    • “Normativa and Use” in the Degree in Spanish Studies, University of Alicante (Spain)
    • “Document Analysis for Translation” in the Degree of Translation, University of Alicante (Spain)
    • “Spanish Language introduction for traslation” in the Degree of Translation, University of Alicante (Spain)
  • 2018
    • “Spanish Healthy Vocabulary for Specific Purposes” in the Master's degree in English and Spanish for Specific Purposes, University of Alicante (Spain)
  • 2007-2015
    • Spanish as a Foreing Language
Teaching abroad 
  • University of Athens (Greece)
  • University of Naple   (Italy)
  • University of Leeds   (Uk)
  • University of Santo Domingo (República Dominicana)
Current research interests 
  • Pragmatic and no verbal comunication
  • Semiotics Studies (the images as communication support)
  • Medieval Literature
  • Semantic and Vocabulary for Specific Purposes
International Conferences (selection) 
  • 2020 Marisol Villarrubia, El discurso docente en los procesos de enseñanza de educación superior, REDES-INNOVAESTIC 2020, Universidad Alicante.
  • 2019 Marisol Villarrubia, La publicidad: del discurso escrito al mensaje, Del Texto al Eslogan: Dicurso, poesía y publicidad, Universidad de Murcia.
  • 2019 Marisol Villarrubia, El conocimiento compartido y la gestualidad en las interacciones comunicativas del ELE, Jornadas sobre el conocimiento compartido: entre la pragmática y la gramática, Universidad de Alicante
  • 2019 Marisol Villarrubia, La Gramática Cognitiva como modelo para la enseñanza ele de estudiantes de habla inglesa, XXI Jornadas de Estudios de Lingüística, Universidad de Alicante
  • 2018 Marisol Villarrubia, Aspectos culturales a través de algunas imágenes publicitarias, Jornadas: Conocimiento Compartido en el discurso publicitario, Universidad de Alicante
  • 2018 Marisol Villarrubia, Las ilustraciones medievales, un ejemplo de narrativa gráfica, UNICOMIC XX, Congreso Internacional De Estudios Universitarios sobre el comic, Universidad de Alicante
  • 2018 Marisol Villarrubia, Calvino una obra marcada por la creación literaria de Borges, II Jornada Internacional: España E Italia. El SIGLO XX, Universidad de Valencia
  • 2018 Marisol Villarrubia, El tratamiento de las interjecciones expresivas o asintomáticas en algunos diccionarios didácticos monolingües, XLVII SIMPOSIO SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE LINGÜISTAS, Universidad de Alicante
  • 2017 Marisol Villarrubia, La narrativa fantástica: estimular el interés por la literatura, I CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL LAS OTRAS LECTURAS DEL SIGLO XXI, Universidad de Alicante
  • 2017 Marisol Villarrubia, Del texto a la ilustración en la Commedia, Jornadas Francoitalianas, Universidad de Alicante
  • 2017 Marisol Villarrubia, Sexismo Lingüístico: El tratamiento de algunos términos en los diccionarios Ele, Editorial LANGUAGE SCHOLAR, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK, ISSN 2398-8509
Editorial activities 
  • LIJ IBERO, revista de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil Contemporánea, Universidad de Méjico
  • REVISTA MARCOELE, online.
  • Business, Book for the Professional Spanish Language, UAH Printer 2012, Alcalá, Madrid
  • Book of the Second Internacional Congress to the Korean Hispanic Association, UAH Printer 2008, Alcalá, Madrid
  • 63 Claves para escribir buenos microrrelatos, Printer by El Desván, 2014