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.
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.
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.
