Dr Daniel Martin

Mario Daniel Martín was born in Salta, Argentina. He holds five university degrees (Bachelor of Science, Tucumán; Master of Arts in Linguistics, Delaware; PhD in Linguistics, ANU; Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Canberra and Masters of Higher Education, ANU), and completed undergraduate and graduate courses in Mathematics, Computer Science, Political Science, Anthropology, Theatre and Cinema in Argentina, Spain and Italy.

He joined the ANU in 2005 to establish the Spanish program and was its convenor until 2017. In this role, he led the application that won an Office of Learning and Teaching national award in teaching in the category “Program that enhances learning” in 2012. He was also the General Convener of the Bachelor of Languages (2007-2018), General Convener of the Diploma of Languages (2009-2017) and School Language Discipline convener (2016-2018). He became an Honorary Associate Professor in December 2020.

Mario Daniel has published academic papers and books related to student attrition and retention in languages, the use of technology in language teaching, the history of language teaching in Australia, the Sociolinguistics situation of the Spanish-speaking community in Australia and literature in the Spanish-speaking World.

Mario Daniel is also a creative practitioner who has extensive experience in producing art in a variety of formats and genres.

Language Maintenance and Shift (Sociolinguistics); The history of the Spanish-speaking Community in Australia; The history of Language Teaching in Australia; Language Teaching Methodology; Mobile Assisted Language Learning; Science Fiction; Experimental and Multimodal Fiction; Theatre of the Absurd; Creative Writing (Including Playwriting), Translation