Jorge
Arús Hita teaches English
language and linguistics at the Facultad de Filología Inglesa, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid. After graduating from the Universidad Complutense in
English studies (Filología Inglesa), he was awarded a scholarship to direct the
Spanish House at the College of Wooster, Ohio. After a two-year stint in Madrid,
where he completed the doctoral courses in English linguistics, he returned to
the U.S. with a scholarship for postgraduate study at Villanova University,
where he earned a Master's Degree in Spanish Language and Literature and worked
as a Spanish instructor at undergraduate level. This was followed by a year
working as lecturer for the department of Romance Languages at the University of
Pennsylvania. Ever since his return to Spain in 1997, he has been teaching at
the Universidad Complutense, where he earned his Ph.D. in English Linguistics in
2003. His publications include articles on contrastive linguistics and second-language
teaching in various national and international journals and edited volumes. He
was a peer-reviewer of the Graduate Journal of Interdisciplinary Research Concept,
Villanova University. His involvement as style supervisor of Atlantis
began in 2006. He's married with two daughters, Clara and Chloe.