Speakers
Vittoria Corallo
Vittoria Corallo is a director, actress, and theatre educator. She trained at the Paolo Grassi Academy of Dramatic Arts in Milan, at Teatro Due in Parma, and through workshops with nationally and internationally renowned directors. She has performed in productions directed by Valerio Binasco, Filippo Timi, Alessandro Gassman, Antonio Latella, Michele Placido, and Romeo Castellucci. Since 2013, she has collaborated with the Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria on a prison theatre project. In 2019, the project became part of the national Per Aspera ad Astra network, led by Armando Punzo and the Compagnia della Fortezza. As part of this initiative, she has written and directed several theatre and film works, including Il celeste sospeso, Matrioska, Voliera, Balera, Shab Qirmiz, La popola del futuro ama, Lenti, and Destinati al vento. Beginning in 2021, she has been teaching theatre practices at the Università degli Studi di Perugia. She also founded OUT! Organismo Universitario Teatrale, an initiative dedicated to fostering artistic collaborations with diverse communities across the Perugia area.
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.
Filippo Fonio
Filippo Fonio is Associate Professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes (France) and currently Visiting Professor at the Università di Perugia. He teaches theater and performance history and facilitates drama workshops, students’ performances (35 productions) and teachers’ training workshops on drama and performance tools for teaching and learning. He has organised several conferences on the topic, and contributed to the IDEA international congress in Paris in 2013, as well as intensive training programmes and summer schools. He has edited volumes on the teaching and learning of drama and through drama practice and written papers on related subjects.
Erika Piazzoli
Dr Erika Piazzoli is an Associate Professor in Arts Education at the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, and the Director of the Arts Education Research Group (AERG). Erika lectures in Drama in Education, Embodying Language and Arts-Based Research on the Master in Education (M.Ed.) programme, TCD, and supervises many postgraduate students in these areas. Since 2020, she has served on the editorial board of Scenario: Journal of Performative Language Teaching, Learning and Research, and acts as a reviewer for several drama journals. To date, Erika has authored four books on drama as research and practice, including Embodying Language in Action, Il Teatro nella Glottodidattica: Dalla Teoria alla Pratica, co-written with Giulia Tiozzo, Digital Displacement, co-edited with Rachael Jacobs and Garret Scally, and Sorgente, co-edited with Fiona Dalziel.
Anna Taglietti
Anna Taglietti is a contract lecturer at the University of Padova and an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Grenoble Alpes, where she leads the TranslingWOL project on contemporary translingual women writers of Italian origin, in collaboration with Georgetown University and the University of Udine. Her research focuses on Italian literary plurilingualism, with particular attention to authors’ and publishers’ archives. Since 2011, she has developed a parallel practice as performer and dramatist in collaboration with the cultural association and theatrical company “Compagnia Ordinesparso” (IT), bringing her academic expertise into dialogue with embodied and performative approaches to literature and language.
