Linda EscobarÁngeles Escobar Alvarez, also known by her pen-name Linda Escobar, was awarded her PhD in Linguistics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Dr Alvarez is Associate Professor of English Studies and Linguistics and Head of Department for Modern Languges at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). She also holds a Senior Researcher position in Applied Linguistics and is a Visiting Scholar at Ghent University (Belgium); Utrecht University (The Netherlands); University of South California (USC); University of Massachusetts (UMAS, Boston) and MIT. Read More Read Less