Leonor María Martínez Serrano is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and German Philology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Córdoba, where she pursued her doctoral studies and gained a PhD in Canadian Literature. She teaches courses on literatures in English, EFL methodology, academic writing, digital humanities and CLIL for content teachers at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is a member of the research group “Research in English and Related Literature” (HUM-682), a research team devoted to the study of literary texts written in English from the early modern period to the present. Her research interests include literatures in English, with a special focus on Canadian Literature, American Literature, High Modernism and Ecocriticism, First Nations and Oral Literatures, Literary Translation, CLIL and bilingual education. More specifically, her research focuses on modern and contemporary Canadian and American poetry, as well as on such Modernist authors as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. She has presented papers at international conferences and published articles on her research interests in scholarly journals. In addition, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia (Canada), where she has done research on Canadian poetry and has made use of the Rare Books and Special Collections at the university libraries, as well as at the University of the West of Scotland (UK), the University of Białystok (Poland), and the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany). 

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