Curriculum vitae
1. Personal data
Name: Brian James WORSFOLD
Date of Birth: 23rd. February 1947
Place of Birth: Horsham, West Sussex, England.
2. Academic data
Bachelor of Arts (English, Linguistics), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, April, 1973.
Bachelor of Arts with honours (Anthropology), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, April, 1974.
Llicenciat en Filosofia i Lletres (Secció de Filologia Moderna - Anglès), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, June, 1980.
Grau de llicenciatura (M.A.) (English Literature), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, February, 1982.
Licenciado en Ciencías políticas y Sociología (Political Science and Sociology), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, June, 1984.
Doctorate (Ph.D) (English Literature), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, November, 1986.
3. Academic posts
1974–1975 Teacher of English Language at the Dawadmi Secondary School and Teachers' Training Institute, Dawadmi, Saudi Arabia.
1975 Lecturer in Phonetics and English Phonology in the Department of Linguistics at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
1979–1982 Lecturer in English Language, Phonetics and English Phonology at the University of Barcelona, Lleida, Catalunya, Spain.
1982–1987 Lecturer in English Literature, British Institutions and the Literatures of English-speaking Countries at the University of Barcelona, Lleida, Catalunya, Spain.
1987–1992 Foreign Associate Lecturer, English Section, Department of Philology, Faculty of Arts, Division VI (Estudi General de Lleida) University of Barcelona, Lleida, Catalunya, Spain.
1992–1994 Foreign Associate Lecturer, English Section, Department of Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Lleida, Lleida, Catalunya, Spain.
1994–2000 (January) Foreign Associate Lecturer, English Section, Department of Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Lleida, Lleida, Catalunya, Spain.
2000 (January)– Professor Titular d'Universitat, Department of English and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Lleida, Lleida, Catalunya, Spain.
4. Academic responsibilities
1981-1982 Director of Studies, Faculty of Philology, Estudi General de Lleida.
1982-1991 Head of English Section, Faculty of Philology, Estudi General de Lleida.
!984- Director, SEDAI - Language Laboratory, Faculty of Philology, Estudi General de Lleida.
1987-1992 Local Secretary, University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate.
1991-1992 Director of Interuniversity Cooperation Programme (ERASMUS), University of Barcelona.
1992-1993 Director of Interuniversity Cooperation Programme (ERASMUS), English Section, University of Lleida.
1993-1995 Adjunct to the Steering Committee, University of Lleida
1993-1995 (June) Adjunct, Vice-rectorat de Relacions Institucionals i Serveis de Campus, University of Lleida.
1995-1998 Institutional Coordinator SOCRATES, University of Lleida
1995-1996 Adjunct to the Pro-Vice-Chancellorship of Institutional Relations (International Office), University of Lleida.
1996-1998 International Office Coordinator, University of Lleida.
1998 (January - April) Adjunct to the Vice-Chancellor, International Relations.
5. Research
1. Anthropology – Studies of ethnicity and identity among Black South African townspeople. Fieldwork carried out under the direction of Professor Philip Mayer, Professor of Social Anthropology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa in Duncan Village (East London, Eastern Cape Province) in 1972.
2. Paleontology – Scholarship member of the Transvaal Fossil Man Expedition to the hominid fossil sites of the Transvaal, with participation in excavations at Makapansgat, Northern Transvaal, under the direction of Professor Philip Tobias, Professor of Anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
3. South African Literature
a) A study of the importance of apartheid legislation as an element of latent tension in the plays of the White South African playwright, Athol Fugard. This study was carried out under the direction of Professor Doireann MacDermott, Professor of English Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona, and was successfully defended as an M.A. thesis with the title: "A Study of Tension in Athol Fugard's Port Elizabeth Plays" at the Universitat de Barcelona in February, 1982.
b) A study of the history of the confrontation between race groups in South Africa from the beginning of European colonisation in the early decades of the 17th. century up until the present day and of the effects of this ongoing conflict on the works of Black South African novelists published since the beginnings of this century. This study was carried out under the direction of Professor Doireann MacDermott, Professor of English Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona, and was successfully defended as a Ph.D thesis with the title: "The Theme of Apartheid in the Novels of Black South Africans" at the University of Barcelona in November, 1986.
4. Phonetics and Phonology – Research into aspects of suprasegmental features (segmentation, accentuation and intonation patterns) in strings of English sounds, carried out at the Laboratori de Fonètica Experimental "Pere Barnils", Estudi General de Lleida, Lleida, Catalunya, Spain.
6. Publications
Worsfold, Brian, "On Signalling English Intonation Contours" in Julià, J. (Ed.) Folia Phonetica 1, Lleida: Estudi General de Lleida, 1984, pp. 133-148.
Worsfold, Brian, "Growing up with Apartheid: A Look at the Socio-political Background in Ezekiel Mphahlele's Down Second Avenue and Peter Abraham's Tell Freedom" in MacDermott, D. (Ed.), Autobiographical & Biographical Writing in the Commonwealth, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 1984, pp. 133-148.
Worsfold, B. "South Africa. The Literature of Apartheid" in Los ultimos veinte años en los estudios anglo-norteamericanos, Actas del VIII Congreso de AEDEAN, Malaga: Universidad de Malaga, 1984, pp. 179-180.
Worsfold, Brian, The Theme of Apartheid in the Novels of Black South African Writers, Barcelona: Publicacions Edicions Universitat de Barcelona (microfilm), 1987.
Worsfold, Brian, "N. Chabani Manganyi, (Ed.) Bury Me at the Marketplace: Selected Letters of Es'kia Mphahlele, 1943-1980. Braamfontein: Skottaville, 1984. 202 pages." in Lindfors, B. (Ed.), Research in African Literatures, Vol. 17, Nº 3, Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1986, pp. 395-398.
Worsfold, Brian, "Apartheid a través de la literatura: les novel·les de Negres sudafricans" in Lladonosa, M., (Ed.), Ressò de Ponent, Vol. 1. Nº 49, Lleida: Ateneu Popular de Ponent, 1987, pp. 6-8.
Worsfold, Brian, "Reflexions sobre el futur polític de Sudàfrica: un dilemma pel CNA (ANC)" in Bañeres, E. & Pont, A.M. (Eds.), Pandora 2, Lleida: Estudi General de Lleida, 1987, p. 29.
Worsfold, Brian, The Theme of Apartheid in the Novels of Black South African Writers (Summary of Ph.D Thesis), Barcelona: Publicacions Edicions Universitat de Barcelona, 1987.
Worsfold, B. "Els liberals blancs a Sudàfrica", Lleida: La Mañana, 20 April 1988, p. 26.
Worsfold, Brian, "From Apartheid and Back: A Look at Aspects of Exile in Es'kia Mphahlele's The Wanderers, Afrika My Music and his Selected Letters 1943-1980" in MacDermott, D. & Ballyn, S. (Eds.), A Passage to Somewhere Else, Barcelona: Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, S.A., 1988, pp. 177-184.
Worsfold, Brian, "Middle-class Trappings and Urban Aspirations in Mothobi Mutloatse's Mama Ndiyalila" in Bardolph, J. (Ed.), Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English, Nice (France): Université de Nice, 1988, pp. 225-230.
Worsfold, Brian, "Els Origins de la Parla: Un diàleg, des d'un punt de vista fonètic-anatòmic, sobre la relació entre la primera parla i la mandíbula inferior" in Lladonosa, M. (Ed.), Ressò de Ponent, Vol. 1, Nº 70, Lleida: Ateneu Popular de Ponent, 1989, pp. 24-28.
Worsfold, B. (Ed.) Festschrift from Lleida for Professor Doireann MacDermott, Lleida: Estudi General de Lleida, 1990.
Worsfold, B. "In Conversation with Lewis Nkosi, Lleida, May 1989" in Worsfold, B. (Ed.), Festschrift from Lleida for Professor Doireann MacDermott, Lleida (Spain): Publicacions Estudi General de Lleida, 1990, pp. 63-72.
Worsfold, B. "Black South African Countrywomen in Lauretta Ngcobo's Long Prose Works" in Fernández-Corugedo, S.G. et al. (Eds.), Studia Patriciae Shaw Oblata, Volume III, Oviedo: University of Oviedo, 1991, pp. 494-503.
Worsfold, Brian, "The Barbarians are Coming - Good News or Bad News? Duality, Meaning and Significance in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians" in Durix, J-P (Ed.), Commonwealth, Essays and Studies, J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Special Issue Nº 3, Dijon (France): Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 1992, pp. 57-66.
Worsfold, Brian, "Black South African Countrywomen in Lauretta Ngcobo's Long Prose Works" in Boehmer, E. et al. (Eds.), Altered State? Writing and South Africa, United Kingdom: Dangaroo Press, 1993, pp. 111-119.
Worsfold, Brian, "Lewis Nkosi (1936-)" in Benson, E. & Conolly, L.W. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 1103-1104.
Worsfold, Brian, "In Conversation with Lauretta Ngcobo. Lleida, March 1993" in Hurtley, J. (Ed.), BELLS 6, (Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies), Barcelona: Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, S.A., 1995, pp. 183-192.
Worsfold, Brian, "Lewis Nkosi" in Lindfors, B. y Sander, R. (Eds.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 157, Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, Third Series, Washington D.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman Inc., 1996, pp. 241-250.
Worsfold, Brian, "Elements of a Parallel Discourse in the Prose Works of Sipho Sepamla" in Pérez Guerra, J. (Ed.), Proceedings of the XIXth International Conference of AEDEAN (Spanish Association of Anglo-North American Studies), Vigo (Spain): Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemana, Universidade de Vigo, 1996, pp. 591-595.
Worsfold, Brian & Bernabeu, Idilia, "A Struggle Not Yet Won. Interview with Miriam Tlali" in Kriger, R. & Kriger, E. (Eds.), Afrikaans Literature. Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi, B.S., 1996, pp. 277-296.
Worsfold, Brian, "Not Black, not Coloured, not White, not Asian, but South African. Towards an All-Race Literary Discourse" in Bates, J. & Collier, G. (Eds.), Shuttling through cultures towards identity / Vers une identité interculturelle, Annales de l'Université de Savoie, nº 21, December 1996, Chambéry (France): Université de Savoie, 1997, pp. 13-21.
Worsfold, Brian, "At the cultural interface: a test case for South African writers" in Proceedings of the EACLALS conference (1996), Oviedo (Spain): (publication pending).
Worsfold, Brian, "Lauretta Ngcobo (1931-)" in Killam, D. & Rowe, R. (Eds.), The Companion to African Literatures in English, Oxford (England): James Currey Publishers, publication date: June 1999.
Worsfold, Brian, "Lewis Nkosi (1936-)" in Killam, D. & Rowe, R. (Eds.), The Companion to African Literatures in English, Oxford (England): James Currey Publishers, publication date: June 1999.
Worsfold, Brian, "Apartheid in South Africa" in Killam, D. & Rowe, R. (Eds.), The Companion to African Literatures in English, Oxford (England): James Currey Publishers, publication date: June 1999.
Worsfold, Brian, "Do differentiated activation regions in Broca's area produce relative formant intensity variation in "early" and "late" speakers of English?" in Portero, C. & Guerrero, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on English Studies, Almería: Universidad de Almería (Spain), 1998. (publication pending).
Worsfold, B., "Sexuality and apartheid; White South Africa's literary discourse as a double-edged sword", in Madrassi, G., Literature under Apartheid and After, Lausanne, Switzerland: Université de Lausanne (in press).
Worsfold, B., "In Conversation with Lewis Nkosi, Lleida (Catalunya), 20th. May 1989)" in Madrassi, G., Literature under Apartheid and After, Lausanne, Switzerland: Université de Lausanne (in press).
Worsfold, B., "Apartheid Man in retrospect: a post-colonial presentation of a black South African male in Charles van Onselen's The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper 1894-1985" in Lindfors, B. et alia, Proceedings of the African Literature Association Conference: Multiculturalism and Hybridity, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 25th.-29th. March 1998, Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin (in press)
Worsfold, B. (Ed.), Multi-cultural Voices, Interviews with Venero Armanno, Stephen Buck, Dennis & Mary Ann Duffy, Peter Goldsworthy, Mbongeni Malaba, George Slusser, Wilbur Smith, Rosemary Sullivan and Miriam Tlali, Lleida: Servei de publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida (DEDAL-LIT#1) (in press)
Worsfold, B., "In conversation with Mbongeni Zikhethele Malaba (University of Zimbabwe at Harare), Lleida, April 1997" in Worsfold, B. (Ed.), Multi-cultural Voices, Interviews with Venero Armanno, Stephen Buck, Dennis & Mary Ann Duffy, Peter Goldsworthy, Mbongeni Malaba, George Slusser, Wilbur Smith, Rosemary Sullivan and Miriam Tlali, Lleida: Servei de publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida (DEDAL-LIT#1) (in press)
Worsfold, B. and Bernabeu, I., "In conversation with Miriam Tlali (South Africa), Commonwealth Institute, London, England, September 1995" in Worsfold, B. (Ed.), Multi-cultural Voices, Interviews with Venero Armanno, Stephen Buck, Dennis & Mary Ann Duffy, Peter Goldsworthy, Mbongeni Malaba, George Slusser, Wilbur Smith, Rosemary Sullivan and Miriam Tlali, Lleida: Servei de publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida (DEDAL-LIT#1) (in press)
Publications pending:
Joensuu - Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun
Lleida - interview with Moyez Vassanji
7. Citations
Lewis Nkosi, keynote address, conference on "Literature in Another South Africa", Somerville College, University of Oxford, England, March 1990.
Lewis Nkosi, "Constructing the Cross-Border Reader" in Boehmer, E. et al. (Ed.), Altered State? Writing and South Africa, London: Dangaroo Press, 1994, note 5, p. 49.
M.J. Daymond, "Some Thoughts on South Africa, 1992: Interview with Lauretta Ngcobo" en Lenta, M. (Ed.), Current Writing. Test and Reception in Southern Africa,Vol. 4, Durban: University of Natal, 1992, p. 97.
S.I. Raditlhalo, "The Poverty of Criticism" in Driver, D. (Ed.), Southern African Review of Books, March / April 1966, p. 18.
Miriam Tlali, keynote address, seminar on "Literature under Apartheid and After", University of Lausanne, Switzerland, April 1996.
8. Interviews
"El crit dels negres. Una nova generació d'autors sudafricans negres atansa la manera de sentir l'apartheid", interview by Joana Bonet in Panorama, Lleida: La Mañana, 7th December 1986, p. 19.
"Sudàfrica: una situació límit vista des de Lleida", interview by Glòria Farre in Cultura, Quadern de Segre, Nº 131, Lleida: Diari El Segre, 22nd February 1987, p. 23.
"Un anglès a casa nostra", interview by Rosa Mesalles in Ressò de Ponent, nº 49, March 1987, pp. 12-13.
"Brian Worsfold, profesor de inglés. Su pasión, enseñar", interviewed by Silvia Solano in Revista, La Mañana, nº 233, 8th April 1990, p. 46.
"Literary Critic says Nkosi novel comes at 'key moment' " in The Laramie Daily Boomerang - 113th year - Sunday, 4 April 1993, p. 10.
9. Translations
Text edition of G. Gruber and I. Kelly-Patterson, From Tonic Solfa to Staff Notation, Elsies River, Cape Province:Via Afrika Limited, 1973.
Translation of "Notes on the Ancient Hospital of Santa Maria" in Maria Dolores Milà Mallafré, Algunas Noticias sobre el Antiguo Hospital de Santa Maria, Lleida: Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, 1984, pp. 43-45.
Translation of "Foreword" to M.D. Milà and J. Rosell (Eds.), 6th European Regional Meeting Excursion Guidebook, Lleida: Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, April, 1985.
Simultaneous translation of "Science, Knowledge and Sport Psychology", lecture given by Professor Rainer Martens, University of Illinois, USA at the IV Jornades de l'Associació Catalana de Psicologia de l'Esport, which took place at the Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya (INEF) Lleida, Catalonia, Spain in November, 1987.
Translation of "Helicopters" for the Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Governació, Direcció General de Prevenció i Extinció d'Incendis i de Salvament de Catalunya, including video soundtrack recording, March 1988.
Translation of "Cataleg Ureña, Decret Nº 131 de 29-3-93", Lleida: Diputació de Lleida, April 1993.
Translation of "Human Genetic Project", Fundació Joan Oró, October 1993.
Translation of video script for COPAGA entitled "Nova Genètica" (New Genetics), including voice over, November 1993.
Simultaneous translation of seminar entitled "Motivació en Esports d'Equip" given by Dr W. Halliwell, Professor of Sport Psychology, University of Montreal, in the X Jornades de Psicologia de l'Activitat Física i de l'Esport, University of Lleida, 19-20 November 1993.
10. Papers and public lectures
Worsfold, B. "Observations on Joaquim Mallafré's translation of James Joyce's Ulysses into Catalan." Public talk given at the Ateneu Popular de Ponent, Lleida, April 1981.
Worsfold, B. "The Geopolitical Background to the Literatures of South Africa." Lecture given in the Department of English at the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, in November, 1982.
Worsfold, B. "Black South Africa: A View of the Urban Geography as perceived by Black South Africans." Lecture given in the Department of English at the Universitat de Barcelona, in November, 1983.
Worsfold, B. "Growing Up with Apartheid: A Look at the Socio-political Background in Ezekiel Mphahlele's Down Second Avenue and Peter Abraham's Tell Freedom." Paper given at the Conference of the European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain, 1984.
Worsfold, B. "The Literature of Apartheid". Paper given at the VIII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos in Malaga, Spain, 1984.
Worsfold, B. "L'India i la Llengua Anglesa". Paper given at the IIes. Jornades de Cinema, Història i Literatura in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, 1985.
Worsfold, B. "Gènesi i situació actual del conflicte sudafricà." Public Lecture given in the cycle: El Món després de Jalta: Conflictes regionals in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, 1986.
Worsfold, B. "Apartheid Landscapes in Lauretta Ngcobo's Cross of Gold." Invitation Lecture given at the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 1986.
Worsfold, B. "From Apartheid and Back: A Look at Aspects of Exile in Es'kia Mphahlele's The Wanderers, Afrika My Music and his Selected Letters 1943–1980" Paper given at Commonwealth Conference "A Passage to Somewhere Else" in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, September, 1987.
Worsfold, B. "Wole Soyinka and the Nobel Prize". Talk given at the Ateneu Popular de Ponent (Lleida), 6 November 1987.
Worsfold, B. "Middle-class Trappings and Urban Aspirations in Mothobi Mutloatse's Mama Ndiyalila" Paper given at the Conference of the European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) in Nice, France, March, 1988.
Worsfold, B. "Sipho Sepamla: a Black South African Connection". Paper given at the "Silver Jubilee" Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England, August, 1989. (Text: )
Worsfold, B. "Anglaterra, Temps de Transició". Public talk given in the cycle "La Música Europea en el Context Cultural de les Avantguardes Plàstiques", organised by the Aula de Música at the Estudi General de Lleida, 29 January 1990.
Worsfold, B. "Black South African Countrywomen in Lauretta Ngcobo's long prose works". Paper given at the Conference of the Southern African Review of Books, "Literature in Another South Africa" at Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, 23 March, 1990.
Worsfold, B. "Tribal Distribution and Its Effects on the Current Situation in South Africa". Lecture given in the Department of English at the University of Barcelona, 19 April 1990.
Worsfold, B. "Historical Watersheds in South Africa and Black South African Literature". Lecture given in the Department of English at the University of Barcelona, 15 May 1991.
Worsfold, B. "Aplicaciones de la fonética y la fonología - Overview", Round Table at the XV Congreso de AEDEAN, Logroño, 17 December 1991.
Worsfold, B. "The Effects of the Present Situation on the Black South African Literary Discourse", lecture given in the Department of English, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America on 6 April 1993.
Worsfold, Brian, "Do differentiated activation regions in Broca's area produce relative formant intensity variation in "early" and "late" speakers of English?", paper given at "The First International Conference on English Studies", Almería: Universidad de Almería (Spain), 1998.
Worsfold, B. "Race and Literature: South Africa's Literary Discourses Before, During and After Apartheid", talk given during the XI Setmana Africana 9-13th. March, 1998, Literatura africana en llengües colonials (African Week), University of Barcelona, 9-13th. March, 1998.
Worsfold, B., "Apartheid Man in retrospect: a post-colonial presentation of a black South African male in Charles van Onselen's The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper 1894-1985.", paper given at African Literature Association Conference: Multiculturalism and Hybridity, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 25th.-29th. March 1998.
11. Congresses and conferences
X International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1983.
VI Congreso Nacional de AEDEAN, Sitges, 1983.
Conference of the European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS), Sitges, Catalonia, Spain, 1984.
I Jornades Pedagògiques per l'Ensenyament d'Anglès, Lleida, organized by the Seminari Permanent d'Anglès, Lleida, 1985.
VIII Congreso Nacional de AEDEAN, Malaga, 1985.
II Jornades Pedagògiques per l'Ensenyament d'Anglès, Lleida, organized by the Seminari Permanent d'Anglès, Lleida, 1986.
X Congreso Nacional de AEDEAN, Zaragoza, 1986.
III Jornades Pedagògiques per l'Ensenyament d'Anglès, Lleida, organized by the Seminari Permanent d'Anglès, Lleida, 1987.
CERPANA Symposium: "Three Days on Southern Africa", Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, 1987.
Commonwealth Conference "A Passage to Somewhere Else", Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 1987.
Conference of the European Association of Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (EACLALS), Nice, France, 1988.
Wilton Park Special Conference on Literature and Society in Contemporary Britain, Wiston House Conference Centre, Steyning, West Sussex, England, August 1988.
IV Congreso de Lenguajes Naturales y Lenguajes Formales, Estudi General de Lleida, Lleida, September 1988.
"Silver Jubilee" Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), University of Kent, Canterbury, England, August 1989.
II Jornadas de Estudios Canadienses en España, Asociación Española de Estudios Canadienses, Sitges, Spain, October 1989.
Southern African Review of Books Conference, "Literature in Another South Africa", Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, 21-23 March 1990.
"Cambridge Examinations", talk given at the Escola Oficial d'Idiomes in Setmana Cultural, Lleida, 27 February 1991.
"Cambridge Examinations", talk given with Mr Ron Round, Cambridge Examinations Officer at the Quartes Jornades Pedagògiques per a l'Ensenyament de les Llengües Estrangeres: Alemany, Anglès i Francès de Lleida, organised by the Seminaris Permanents d'Alemany, Anglès i Francès, at the Estudi General de Lleida, 18-20 April, 1991.
Round Table on "Professions humanístiques i filologies" in the VI Jornada Universitària, 24 April 1991, at the I.B. Manuel de Pedrolo de Tàrrega, Tàrrega.
ESCA Workshop on "The Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles: Reduction and Elaboration in Speech Communication", 30 September–2 October 1991, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Congreso Nacional de AEDEAN Congress, Logroño, 1991.
1st Conference on Irish Studies, Estudi General de Lleida, Division VI, University of Barcelona, 10-11 March 1992. Presenter of Professor Terence Brown, Trinity College, Dublin.
Round Table on "Professions humanístiques i filologiques" in the VII Jornada Universitària, 1 April 1992, at the I.B. Manuel de Pedrolo de Tàrrega, Tàrrega.
Women Writers' Workshop, Tenth Anniversary Conference, Commonwealth Institute, London, 12-13 February, 1993.
"The End, An International Conference on Language and Literature in English at the Close of the 19th and 20th Centuries", University of Barcelona. Presenter of Lauretta Ngcobo, Black South African writer. 23-25 March, 1993
ESSE Congress, Bordeaux, September 1993
ESSE Congress, Glasgow,
EASA Conference "Australia's changing landscapes", Sitges, 2-4 October, 1993.
"South African Writing at the Crossroads, An International Conference on South African Literature", Commonwealth Institute, London, England, 22nd.-23rd. September 1995
"Enigmas and Arrivals: Writing Now, An International Symposium", Centre for English Studies, University of London, School of Advanced Study, 29th.-30th. April 1997.
"The First International Conference on English Studies", Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain, 20th.-25th. October 1997.
XI Setmana Africana (African Week), 9th.-13th. March, 1998, "Literatura africana en llengües colonials", University of Barcelona, 9th.-13th. March, 1998.
"African Literature Association Conference: Multiculturalism and Hybridity", University of Texas at Austin, USA, 25th.-29th. March 1998.
12. Organiser of talks, conferences, seminars and other activities
Curs de metodologia per l'ensenyament d'Anglès, 1983-1984, per a professors de BUP, Estudi General de Lleida, organised by the Seminari Permanent d'Anglès, ICE (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
Curs d'iniciació a la llengua anglesa, Institut Nacional d'Educació Física (INEF), La Caparella, Lleida, January-June, 1987
Talk entitled "The Black South African Experience in Apartheid Society" and seminar entitled "Cross of Gold, the author and her novel", given by Lauretta Ngcobo, Estudi General de Lleida, Division VI, University of Barcelona, 20 and 23 Februray 1987.
Talk entitled "Word Stress in Modern English: Trends and Innovations", given by Dr Brian Mott (University of Barcelona) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 10 March 1987.
Talk entitled "Accents and Dialects of English" and seminar entitled "Syllables and Allophones in RP", given by Dr John Wells (University College, London) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 11 February 1988.
Talk entitled "Australia: Background to the Process of Colonisation", given by Professor Doireann MacDermott and Dr Susan Ballyn (University of Barcelona) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 29 February 1988.
Talk entitled "English Literature and Boredom", given by Mr Martin Ashe-Jones (formerly University of Turku, Finland and National University of Australia at Canberra) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 14 March 1988.
Talk entitled "The Social and Religious Background to The Canterbury Tales", given by Professor Pedro Guardia Massó (University of Barcelona) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 15 March 1988.
Talk entitled "Take me to your Leda", given by Professor Terence Hawkes (University of Cardiff, Wales), at the Estudi General de Lleida, 27 April 1988.
Talk entitled "The Caribbean: the Setting of the Literature", given by Dr Kathleen Firth (University of Barcelona) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 17 May 1988.
Seminar on "The Caribbean", given by Professor John Figueroa (Open University, UK) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 18-19 October 1988.
Talk entitled "Directions in Literature Teaching: Language Theory and Text" and seminar entitled "Literary Theory Tendencies", given by Dr Alan Durant (University of Strathclyde, Scotland), at the Estudi General de Lleida, 2 March 1989.
Talk entitled "Caribbean Literature and Culture: Variety and Achievement", given by Professor John Figueroa (Open University) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 13 November 1989.
Talk entitled "Translating Intentions", given by Mr John Dent-Young (Chief Drama Critic, South China Morning Post) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 10 May 1990.
Talk entitled "The Short Happy Life of the South African Short Story", given by Professor Bernth Lindfors (University of Texas at Austin, USA) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 2 May 1989.
Talk entitled "Black and White: Literary Representations in a Divided Society", given by Professor Lewis Nkosi (University of Warsaw, Poland) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 17 May 1989.
Talk entitled "Poland Today", given by Dr Jadwiga Lukanty (Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland) at the Estudi General de Lleida, 18 May 1989
Examinations of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (PET, FCE, CAE, CPE, DES), June and December sittings 1987-1992.
Talk entitled "Australia", given by Dr Michael Walker, Professor of Physical Anthropology, University of Murcia (Campus d'Espinardo) at the University of Lleida, 3rd. April 1992.
Talk on And They Didn't Die, given by Lauretta Ngcobo (South African writer), University of Lleida, 22nd. March 1993.
Lecture on "Information Structure as an Element of Cohesion", given by Dr. Martin Davies (University of Stirling, Scotland) at the University of Lleida, 7th. March 1997.
Seminar on "Cohesion in Some Literary Texts", given by Dr. Martin Davies (University of Stirling, Scotland) at the University of Lleida, 7th. March 1997.
Lecture on , "The Influence of Literature on the Anti-Apartheid Movement", given by Dr. Mbongeni Zikhethele Malaba (University of Zimbabwe at Harare) at the University of Lleida, 16th. April 1997.
Seminar on "Liberal Perspectives on Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Critique of J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Nadine Gordimer's July's People, given by Dr. Mbongeni Zikhethele Malaba (University of Zimbabwe at Harare) at the University of Lleida, 16th. and 17th. April 1997.
Talk on "The Writer and His Work: Lecture and Reading", given by Moyez G. Vassanji (Tanzanian-Canadian writer) at the University of Lleida, 13th. March 1998.
13. Membership of academic societies
AEDEAN - Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
AEEC - Asociacion Española de Estudios Canadienses
EACLALS - European Association of Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies
ESCA - European Speech Communication Association
Anglo-Catalan Society
ALA - African Literatures Association
ESSE - European Society for the Study of English
14. Other merits
Scholarship Member of the Transvaal Fossil Man Expedition (1973) under the direction of Dr. Philip Tobias of the Department of Anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Grant 1 from the Patronat de l'Estudi General de Lleida, 1983.
Grant 2 from the Patronat de l'Estudi General de Lleida, 1984.
ERASMUS Staff visit, University of Stirling, Scotland, February 1990.
Editorial Board of Sintagma, edited by Dr Jaume Tió, University of Lleida.
15. Doctoral and Minor Thesis tribunals
Member of tribunal for the Ph.D Thesis: "The Role of English in India since Independence: 1947-1980", defended at a public hearing by Pilar Casamada Ribera at the University of Barcelona in April 1987.
Member of tribunal for the Ph.D Thesis: "Aspects of V.S. Naipauls's Caribbean Fiction", defended at a public hearing by Kathleen Firth Marsden at the University of Barcelona in September 1987.
Member of tribunal for the Minor Thesis "Love in the Poetry of Judith Wright", defended at a public hearing by Nela Bureu Ramos at the Division VI of the University of Barcelona (Estudi General de Lleida) in February 1988.
Member of tribunal for Ph.D Thesis "The pragmatics of communicative competence. The case of interaction between university professors and students.", defended at a public hearing by Josep Maria Cots Caimons at the Division VI of the University of Barcelona (Estudi General de Lleida) in July 1991.
Member of tribunal for Ph.D Thesis "African Prison Literature", defended at a public hearing by Josep Sala Esquena at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra in November 1991.
Member of tribunal for the Minor Thesis "An Analysis and Classification of the Different Types of Elision in Spoken Standard English", defended at a public hearing by Joan Carles Mora Bonilla at the University of Barcelona on the 17th June 1992.
Member of tribunal for Ph.D Thesis "Developing Translation Studies to Better Account for Audiovisual Texts and Other New Forms of Text Production", defended at a public hearing by Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terran at the University of Lleida, Lleida, in July 1993.
Member of tribunal for Ph.D Thesis "The Canadian Landscape through Poetry", defended at a public hearing by Nela Bureu Ramos at the University of Lleida, Lleida, on the 21st. September 1993.
Member of tribunal for Ph.D Thesis "A.N.Wilson: Viewing his fiction through Bakhtin", defended at a public hearing by Jordi Lluís Guitart i Olivé at the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, on the 3rd. May 1996.
partial update: 01/08/00