Boris Vazquez-Calvo, PhD

I am currently an assistant professor at the School of Education at the University of Málaga, Spain, where I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on foreign language education to pre-service teachers.  I also hold a fixed-term secondary appointment to teach a postgraduate course in an MA degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language. My research lies at the intersection of language learning, fan practices, and digital culture. I study how young people as fans develop, use and learn literacies, languages, and identities in multifarious ways, particularly in online contexts of social interaction. I am also interested in translation in language learning, digital games and language learning, and new discourse modalities online, among other aspects of CALL, language education and applied linguistics. I am a member of the editorial board of Language Learning & Technology.