Meet the author

MEtaphor Festival Amsterdam

This is my CV:

Education and Training

  • –  PhD dissertation: Developing, Applying and Testing FILMIP: the Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure.
  • –  CAP, Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude, 2009, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
  • –  Bacherlor’s Degree on English Studies, 1998-2003, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING
  • –  “Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching”, Lancaster University, 16 hrs. 2016.
  • –  “Methods for statistical inference”, Universitat Jaume I, 60 hrs, 2015.
  • –  Summer School “Methods for Metaphor Identification and Analysis”, organized by theMetaphor Lab, UVA (Amsterdam). June, 2015.
  • –  “How to Read a Mind” (Cognitive Poetics). University of Nottingham, 6 hrs, December, 2014TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Teaching experience in Higher Education

  • –  Workshop by invitation: Applying FilMip, the filmic metaphor identification procedure. Duringthe Metaphor Festival, University of Amsterdam, August 2017.
  • –  Associate Professor at the English Studies Department, 2015-present, Universitat Jaume I,Castellón, España.
  • –  Seminar by invitation “La familia, los menores y las nuevas tecnologías, ¿cómo convivir?”. 7horas, 2015. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
  • –  Seminar by invitation “Las TIC en el aula: una nueva forma de enseñar y aprender”, 2011,Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, España.

Abroad Stays

  • 3-months PhD Research Stay at the Metaphor Geeks Lab, embedded within the International Center for Intercultural Exchange, Siena, under the supervision of Dr. Marianna Bolognesi, 2017.
  • International Student Exchange Program between UJI and Shawnee State University, Ohio, USA, 2003.

Prizes

  • 2ND PRIZE WINNER of the International Research Pitch Contest, 2017, organized by theCompostela Group of Universities.
  • 2ND PRIZE WINNER of Universitat Jaume I Research Pitch Contest 2016.
  • 1ST PRIZE WINNER of XII Innovation and Creativity in Education, INCREA, UJI, 2015. Winning project: http://www.braintolearn.uji.es

Published papers

  • Bort-Mir, L. (2017) To Click or not to Click: a Cognitive Linguistic Approach to a Mental Theory of Website Domains. HERITAGE. (18). pp. 1-18.
  • BortMir, L. (2016). Adult Brain: Game of Metaphors for Understanding the Internet. Ariadna Journal. Cultura, Educación y Tecnología, no 3. ISSN: 23407719 (p.1116)
  • Bort-Mir, L . (2015). New Ways of Teaching Metacognitive Skills in Higher Education: ConverStand, New Software for a Better Knowledge Acquisition (pp. 45574562). International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED). ISSN: 23401079. Indexed en: WEB OF SCIENCE / ISI.Conference presentations:

Conference participation

  • –  Lorena Bort-Mir and Marianna Bolognesi. Understanding the mental operations during filmic metaphor processing: a think aloud experiment. Metaphor Festival, University of Amsterdam, 2018.
  • –  Lorena Bort-Mir. Introducing FILMIP: a method for metaphor identification in moving pictures. Metaphor Festival, University of Amsterdam, 2017.
  • – Workshop by invitation: Applying FILMIP: the filmic metaphor identification procedure. UVA, Amsterdam, 2017.
  • –  Lorena Bort-Mir. Desarrollando la Herramienta DAG: Diario de Aprendizaje Guiado para Promover y Evaluar los Procesos Metacognitivos de los Estudiantes en la Educación Superior. Congreso virtual ATIDES, Avances en Tecnología, Innovación y Desafíos de la Educación Superior, Oct. 2016, UJI. International.
  • –  Lorena Bort-Mir. A method for filmic metaphors identification in TV commercials. IV International Conference on Metaphor and Discourse. Castellón (UJI). International. 2015.
  • –  Keynote speaker (by invitation). Lorena Bort-Mir. Adult Brain: Game of Metaphors to Undestand the Internet, 4th International Conference on Elderly and New Technologies, Universitat Jaume I, International, 2015.
  • –  Lorena Bort-Mir. ConverStand: new software for enhancing task and domain specific metacognitive skills for a better knowledge acquisition in Higher Education. XXXIII Congreso Internacional de AESLA. International. Madrid, 2015
  • –  Lorena Bort-Mir. Much Ado About Nothing? ICT: Revitalizing Literature Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. XIX Jornadas de Fomento de la Investigación de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales. Castellón (UJI), 2014
  • –  Lorena Bort-Mir. Romeo and Juliet. Luhrman vs. Zeffirelli: A Contrastive Analysis of both films. Jornadas de Fomento a la Investigación de Filología Inglesa. Castellón (UJI), 2006.

Research Projects

2015-present: Member of the research group GReSCA: Research Group on Contrastive and Applied Linguistics, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. www.gresca.uji.es