Marta García Quiñones is an associate lecturer specialising in English for Hospitality and Diversity Management at EUHT St Pol (UdG). She also teaches English for Audiovisual Media and English for Industrial Engineering at TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme (UPF), and Master’s Thesis Design at the UOC. Her pedagogical work focuses on vocabulary development, genre-based ESP instruction and academic writing for diverse international student groups. Her research examines the historicity of music listening, with particular attention to psychological, technological and educational discourses. She contributes regularly to cross-disciplinary debates in aesthetics and cultural theory and is especially interested in the methodological challenges of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.Academic Background Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Barcelona (2016, cum laude, Doctor Europaeus). Thesis: Historical Models of Music Listening and Theories of Audition. DELTA (Modules One and Two), Cambridge English (2024). CELTA (Pass strong), Cambridge English, International House Rome (2021). Postgraduate training in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, International House Barcelona (2017). B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1994). Academic Accreditation ANECA: Profesora Ayudante Doctora, Profesora Contratada Doctora, Profesora de Universidad Privada (2022). AQU Catalunya: Lectora (2022). Current Academic Positions EUHT St Pol (UdG), Associate Lecturer (2024– ). Professional English for Tourism and Hospitality; Diversity Management. TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme (UPF), Associate Lecturer (2020– ). English for Audiovisual Media; English for Industrial Engineering; Professional English. UOC, Associate Lecturer (2020– ). Master’s Thesis Design, M.A. in Philosophy for Contemporary Challenges. Previous Academic and Professional Experience Visiting lecturer at SoundArt Master (Milano) and Elisava – Creative Marathon. Teaching experience in business English, Spanish as a foreign language, and exam invigilation for the British Council. Earlier professional roles in cultural management, including Head of Public Programmes at MACBA (2009–2011). Research and Publications Research focuses on the historicity of music listening, listening practices, and the interaction between sound, psychology, and media. Books La música más allá del cerebro (MRA, 2023). Ubiquitous Musics (Routledge, 2013), co-edited with A. Kassabian and E. Boschi. La música que no se escucha (Orquestra del Caos, 2008), editor. Selected Articles and Chapters (last 10 years) With F. Fabbri, “Los Javaloyas…”, Musica/Realtà, 2024. “Studying Listening to Recorded Popular Music”, in Contemporary Popular Music Studies, Springer, 2019. “‘What Is This Music Doing to Me?’”, in Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Wellbeing, 2019. Several book reviews in Popular Music and Transposition. Complete list available at Academia.edu. Editorial and Research Roles Editor of JoSSIT – Journal of Sound, Silence, Image and Technology. Member of the SSIT Research Group (TecnoCampus). Peer reviewer for Arbor, The Sociological Review, Critical Studies in Media Communication, among other academic journals. Participation in funded projects, including an AHRC (UK) workshop and the Sound in Media Culture network (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Languages Catalan and Spanish (native; Catalan C2). English (C2: CPE 222/230; TOEFL 287/300). Italian (CELI5 C2). German (KDS C2).