Dr Julia Miller has taught English as a Foreign or Additional Language, academic skills, French and Portuguese for many years, working in France, Portugal, the UK and Australia. She holds an honours degree in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge (Murray Edwards College, formerly known as New Hall). She later completed an MA by research and a PhD at Flinders University in Adelaide. Her MA thesis is on the subject of English loan words in modern European Portuguese, and her PhD is on the inclusion of idioms in English learners’ dictionaries. She has been a lecturer in academic literacy in the School of Education at the University of Adelaide. While at Flinders University she received a Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant to make a DVD on academic oral presentation skills. She also won the Flinders University Educational Research Conference Early Career Researcher award in 2005. Since then she has published many academic journal articles, as well as her novel ‘The Good Samaritan’, written under the pseudonym Julia Haisley. She is an editorial member of the international Grammar Gang blog.
