Clive Bellis was born in Reading, Berkshire (United Kingdom). After graduating from the University of Sheffield in 1990 with a Class One Honours Degree in Spanish Studies, he was awarded a scholarship for postgraduate study by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and subsequently completed a two-year Master’s Degree in International Studies at the University of Alicante in 1993. As a freelance translator, he has worked extensively with the Spanish toy and plastics industries, as well as in a number of academic fields, including contemporary history and women’s studies. In 1999, he joined the English Department at the University of Alicante, where he has taught a range of first degree subjects in English Studies, Translation and Interpreting, and Humanities. His current areas of academic specialization include British history and culture, and technical terminology and translation. He has also worked as oral examiner for the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (FCE, CAE and CPE examinations) since 1996, and as style supervisor for Atlantis (a Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies) from 2003 to 2006. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis, which focuses on linguistic elements in the British press coverage of the Spanish transition to democracy, as well as on a compact Spanish-English/English-Spanish dictionary for Herder Editorial.

E-Mail: bellis@ua.es