Academic interests
Spanish as a foreign language, intercultural learning, higher education, school education, vocational training, e-learning, language learning in formal and informal contexts, teaching and learning materials, song translation
Courses taught
Associate Professor of Spanish and Didactics (2017-present)
Lecturer of Spanish and Didactics (2008-2015)
Lecturer of Spanish at In-service training and teacher professional development in connection with the Implantation of the “Knowledge Promotion Reform”: Education reform introduced in 2006 in primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education and training (2006-2010)
Background
Course certificates in Project Management I; Human Resource Management; Self-leadership – personal effectiveness and team and follower development; Organizational Development and Change (30 credits). Executive Education. BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway Autumn 2017.
One-year undergraduate teacher training programme (60 credits). University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 2003-2004.
Master of Arts in Spanish Literature, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 2000. Master’s thesis title: Comunicación como tema y técnica en ‘El cuarto de atrás’ de Carmen Martín Gaite. The novel El cuarto de atrás presents metafictional aspects, and is a combination of different literary genres.
Undergraduate studies in classical Latin (30 credits), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Autumn 1991.
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, History, and Italian. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Spring 1991.
Positions held
Østfold University College:
Head of Studies at English and Foreign Languages and Online Courses (2019 August-2021 July)
Head of Studies at English and Foreign Languages and Online Courses (Substitute) (2017 August-November; 2018 August-November; 2019 March-July)
Project manager. One-year project: Online Course Design in Norwegian and Spanish. The project aimed to improve student participation in our online courses, and ensure effective course design and digital learning (2016 August-2017 June)
Head of Section for Teacher training programme (2015 March-2017 January)
The Norwegian National Centre for Foreign Languages in Education:
Adviser in Spanish and classical Latin (2009 May-2014 December)
Head of Section at Foreign Languages (2012 August-2013 July)
Partners
University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Project member: The two-year Nordplus Horizonal Project: Developing Early Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in the Nordic/Baltic Context (ELL-NB). 2016-2018. The project aimed to establish educational collaboration between universities, teacher education centres and primary schools in four Nordic/Baltic countries: Denmark, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. The focus was on English, French, German and Spanish for young learners and lifelong learning.