Andrew Rossiter

Former head of Applied Languages at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon, France, Andrew Rossiter has a long experience teaching English language, grammar and translation, as well as British area studies, to graduate and postgraduate students of English. He was founding editor and a regular contributor to the Linguapress language-learning newsmagazines which were for over twenty years widely used in EFL classes and schools across Europe. Under the European Erasmus programme, he was guest lecturer in Spain at the universities of Granada, Almeria and Caceres and in Italy at the university of L'Aquila.

Andrew Rossiter holds an honours MA in languages from the University of Edinburgh, a degree in applied linguistics and a D.Lett in literature.

He is now enjoying an active retirement, doing some of the research, writing, reading and website development he did not have time for while running a large interdisciplinary university department.