Speakers
Celine Healy
Céline Healy is an assistant professor at Maynooth University Department of Education. Céline has extensive national and international experience in the field of education. She is President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and a Council Member of the European Educational Research Association. Céline is a member of the Foreign Languages Advisory Group which oversees and advises on the implementation of Ireland’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education. She is Chair of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s Modern Language Development Groups. Céline is a former Chair of the European Language Label in Ireland. She is a founder member of the Association for Drama in Education in Ireland.
Erika Piazzoli
Erika Piazzoli is an Assistant Professor in Arts Education at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. She coordinates the Master in Education (M.Ed.) programme, teaches the Embodying Language module (M.Ed. Language Education), M.Ed. Drama in Education Summer School, and Arts in Education, Professional Master in Education. Her research interests include embodiment and language education, drama teacher education and performative language learning.
Eva Göksel
Eva Göksel has a background both in broadcasting (radio and TV) and education, where she has taught in multiple languages, as well as training teachers. Her work explores various facets of performative teaching and learning including drama, storytelling, and listening. In 2023, she defended her PhD thesis focusing on Drama in Teacher Education at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Filippo Fonio
Filippo Fonio is Associate professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes. Has been working on drama and theatre with students majoring in Italian, French, Classics and Drama Studies for several years. He also taught drama for Primary and Secondary Schools teachers.
Fiona Dalziel
Fiona Dalziel is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL) of the University of Padova, Italy, where she teaches on the BA and MA degree programmes in Modern Languages. Her research interests include: promoting metacognitive learning strategies and learner autonomy; English-medium Instruction (EMI); translanguaging in the language classroom; and performative approaches to language learning, including that of adult migrants.
Garret Scally
Garret Scally, Atlantic Technological University, Sligo, Ireland, is lecturer in literary and cultural studies and an applied theatre practitioner-researcher who uses theatre and drama in educational, community and social settings. His interests include devised and physical theatre, playfulness, belonging and diaspora, and performative teaching and pedagogical approaches, including the teaching and learning of additional languages through theatre. He is often lost in music. He also has a research and personal interest in football of all assortments (Red or dead. Maigh Eo Abú!).
Harald Pittel
Harald Pittel teaches British Cultural Studies at Leipzig University. He has published articles on post-Brexit fiction, working-class literature and decadent theory. From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting scholar at Delhi University. He wrote his PhD thesis on Romance and Irony: Oscar Wilde and the Political. His second book (in progress) explores how the crises of the present might shape a new understanding of world literature. His other research interests include political affect studies, comparative film studies, genre theories, and materialist theories of culture.
Jean-Rémi Lapaire
Jean-Rémi Lapaire teaches cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, gesture semiotics, and performance theory at Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM), France. He has explored the role played by physical motion in grammar, abstract reasoning, and social interaction, and shown that the sensing, moving, and cognizing body may articulate and project just about any “meaning” (however elusive or complex). His current research is centred on intersemiotic translation and performance-based approaches to education. He has designed and tested mixed teaching and learning strategies – spoken, written, visual-kinaesthetic – which allow educators and students to engage more fully in observation and reasoning in all domains of human enquiry.
Lauriane Mastrocicco-Longe
Lauriane Mastrocicco-Longe is studying for a Master 1 in Italian and French Studies at Grenoble, in a joint degree program with the University of Padua. She has a degree in theater and creative practice from the University of Lorraine, and has taken part in various masterclasses and drama workshops about voice and body in France and Italy. She has also run drama workshops with students in French and Italian.
Manfred Schewe
Manfred Schewe is Professor Emeritus at University College Cork (UCC) where he served as Head of a Language Department (German) and also as Head of Theatre. His teaching and interdisciplinary research activities focus on performative approaches to language, literature, and culture and are closely connected to the Scenario Project which encompasses a trilingual (German-English-Italian) journal, a book series, and a forum for international conferences, symposia, and colloquia. For further details click here.
Modesto Corderi Novoa
Modesto Corderi Novoa is a performative language teacher and researcher. He holds a Ph.D. in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Spain. Dr. Corderi also has three master’s degrees, one in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (MTCSOL) from Beijing Language and Culture University, another Master of Teaching in ELE from Nebrija University, and a master’s degree in teaching English to Secondary Schools from the Valencian International University (VIU). He also received a BA in Chinese Language from Beijing Language and Culture University. He focuses on using Performative Language Teaching (PLT) pedagogy in the Chinese classroom and is one of the world’s leading researchers and experts in this field. He works as a Chinese teacher at Xunta de Galicia in the EOI Official Language School in A Coruña, Spain.
Philipp Nawka
Philipp Nawka was born in 1981 in Berlin and attended school at the Freie Waldorfschule Berlin Mitte. He studied Linguistics at Humboldt Universität Berlin, Speech Sciences and Phonetics (2003-2009) in Halle/S and received training in Gestalt-oriented “Drama- and Theatre Therapy” at HIGW (2015-2019) Hamburg. He is a lecturer in teacher training at the ZLS Universität Leipzig (primarily in the module “Body-Voice-Communication”) and a freelancing voice-actor and trainer for voice, communication, and presentation.
Rachael Jacobs
Rachael Jacobs lectures in Creative Arts Education at Western Sydney University and is a former secondary arts teacher (Dance, Drama and Music). Her PhD was on creativity and assessment, and her research focusses language development through the arts and the arts for social and creative justice. Rachael facilitates art projects in community settings all over Australia, mostly working in migrant and refugee communities. She is a community activist, aerial artist, South Asian choreographer and runs her own intercultural dance company. She was a founding member of Teachers for Refugees, is on the boards of climate action organisation, Sweltering Cities, and youth theatre company, PYT Fairfield.
Sharka Dohanlova
Sharka (Šárka) Dohnalova is a teacher, teacher trainer, and trainer of pre-service teachers at The Faculty of Education, Masaryk University in Brno, The Czech Republic. She cooperates with Pilgrims TT and Oxford University Press, Czech Republic. She specializes in ELT didactics for Very Young Learners and Young Learners, SEN learners, and using drama as a tool for learning languages. Recently, she has been working on using synchronous and asynchronous online tools in shadow education of SEN children.
Stefanie Giebert
Stefanie Giebert currently teaches German as a second language at a secondary school in Kempten, Germany where she also runs a drama club (in German). She is moreover a foreign language instructor (German, English) at several Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany. She discovered drama in education after completing her PhD in English literature, working with an English-language drama club at her university. In her research, she has explored topics such as staging non-fictional texts and drama in English for Special Purposes.
Helpers
Dauda
Dauda is a student on the Master’s degree in Communication Strategies at the University of Padova. His previous professional and work experience includes an internship at The Post newspaper in Yaoundé, Cameroon and working as an English language and literature teacher at the UN refugee camp high school in Minawao (Cameroon). He also has experience as a kindergarten teacher, and as translator and dialogue facilitator between UNHCR staff and refugees. He has musical talents and was choir coordinator at Bon and Siantou Universities.
Giordana
Giordana Fogaça Bido is a Brazilian-Italian creative artist. She is a Northwestern University (USA) graduate in Communications and a Master’s student at the University of Padua (IT) in Communication Strategies. Her interests include film, dance, theater, and Performative Arts in Education research. She has been involved in many projects in and outside university, like producing an award-winning short film, choreographing the play “The Cherry Orchard Quarantined”, and acting, singing, and dancing in theater plays worldwide.
Pichayapuk
Pichayapuk is from Thailand and you can call her “Buai”. That’s the nickname that everyone at home calls her. A fun fact is that it means sweet Chinese plum, as she is half-Chinese by blood. She is currently in her last year of English Studies, MA, at UniPd. When she is not buried with uni tasks, you can find her roaming in nature or on a mat. She loves meditating, doing yoga, and hiking in her free time. She is passionate about meeting people from all walks of life, learning from them, and sharing her humbled knowledge and experiences with them. She hopes to continue her path using her people-at-heart skills in bridging worlds and gaps with a cultural touch. She is super excited to meet you all at the Summer School!
Shafagh
Shafagh is an international student from Iran. She has been living in Padova for almost two years and a half now and it has been the most exciting, challenging, and interesting period of her life. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Iran in English language and literature and worked as an English teacher for kids and teenagers for almost seven years. After some years of working full-time as a teacher, she felt like she needed a
new challenge and at the same time a new adventure. Then she chose Italy as her destination to study English studies at the University of Padova. During her academic years here, she tried to participate in different social and academic activities as much as time allowed to get the most out of her university life and meet new people from different backgrounds with various interesting stories. Currently, she is working on her Master’s thesis titled “Language Learning through Short Story-Based Performative Activities”. She believes that drama can free us from anxiety, stress, and lack of self-confidence when speaking in a second language and it can make us act bolder in life in general. This was the case for her as an English learner and she hopes her research can also help others. She is very excited about this Summer School and cannot wait to meet you all and hear all the stories.
