Neus Gimeno

As an avid student as well as teacher, Neus Gimeno holds three M.A. degrees (Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from Menéndez Pelayo International University (2021), Audiovisual Translation: Localization, Subtitling and Dubbing and Translation from Cádiz University (2017) and Translation and Interpretation Studies from Universtitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2010)), as well as in-depth language acquisition training courses that amount to almost 300 hours. She has also studied a Postgraduate Diploma in Spanish Editing and Proofreading from Menéndez Pelayo International University (2018).

Apart from studying in Spain, she has been an international student at Bishop’s University, Canada (2005) and Cologne University of Applied Sciences (2007-2008) during her first M.A. degree. She has been granted scholarships to take part in the Summer School of the University of Vienna (2012) and in the professional training courses organized by the Center for Rural Development, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in four cycles (2011, 2013, 2014, 2016). She has also joined community service trips organized by both government and non-government organizations to Thailand (2013), Taiwan (2012) and Algeria (2008).

Driven by a commitment towards diversity and inclusion, her professional experience ranges from interpreter, translator and project management for NGOs to teaching language and literature in both Indian and international organizations from the private and the public sector. She has worked at Instituto Cervantes from 2014 to 2019 as Collaborating Professor where she specialized in teaching Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) and taught all the levels offered by the center in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference: from A1-C1. She’s also an official DELE examiner (from A1 to C2 levels). Professor Gimeno has been the recipient of the international visiting faculty fellowship program of the Spanish Ministry of External Affairs (MAEC-AECID) for Jawaharlal Nehru University (2019-2022), where she was able to expand her teaching methodology and focus her latest master’s thesis research on democratizing access to learning in general and specifically to language acquisition. Her work has been published in the yearly journal of the School of Spanish Literature of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona called “Doblele”. She also collaborates with the journal of the School of Spanish Literature of the Alicante University called “ELUA” with book reviews of the language acquisition field.