Daniel Cassany is a Discourse Analysis teacher and researcher, at the Department of Translation and Philology (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). He has a degree on Catalan Philology and a Ph. D. on Educational Sciences. He has published more than 15 books about written communication, literacy and language teaching in Catalan, Spanish, Euskera and Portuguese. He has published more than 100 scientific articles in bulletins and reviews, also in English, French, Russian and Japanese. He is part of the advising board of 15 research journals on language and language education in Catalan and Spanish. He has been visiting professor in postgraduate courses, masters and Ph D. programs at universities and institutions of more than 30 countries, in Europe, America and Asia. He has collaborated with the Ministry of Education of Catalonia, Galicia, Euskadi, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Mexico, in programs and actions about literacy education. From 2004, he coordinates a research group about Critical Literacy and elearning.