COD 2025 - D1105

Webinar - Cultural Programme - Reading and Media Breakfasts: "Forking Paths: two short stories by C.D.Rose"

Literature lovers – anyone interested in reading

1 sessions, start: 12-Apr

Please enrol before Wednesday, April 9th 2025

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Announced
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 30000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 30000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 12 April 2025 10:00 am 11:30 am

Facilitator/s

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
Literature lovers – anyone interested in reading
- To foster discussion of two highly innovative contemporary texts
- To encourage participants to read more texts by the author
- To open questions on the state of the art of the short story
- The complex relationship between fiction and reality in C.D.Rose’s stories “Proud Woman, Pearl Necklace, Twenty Years” and “Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea”
- Approaches to the art of the short story in the xxist century
- Intertextuality and metatextuality
The facilitator will provide contextual information on the author and the topics of the stories and open lines of discussion for participants to share their views on the two short stories
Rose, C.D. Walter Benjamin Stares a the Sea - Melville House: 2023
https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/in-the-footsteps-of-walter-benjamin/#:~:text=After%20entrusting%20his%20precious%20manuscripts,visa%20to%20the%20United%20States.
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