COD 2021 - D559

Webinar - Literature evenings: Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other

Literature lovers

2 sessions, start: 12-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2021
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 3600.00
Non affiliate
ARS 3600.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 12 August 2021 05:30 pm 07:00 pm
2 19 August 2021 05:30 pm 07:00 pm

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
• To identify the issues presented in the novel and the narrative strategies used to convey them
• To explore the relevance of such issues in an Argentine context
• To speculate on the reasons for the novel’s success and on its potential for cultural mediation
• To reflect on language change in the light of new views on gender identity and race
Through a selection of specific extracts, we will discuss the novel’s structure, central themes (such as race, age and gender), characterization and the construction of distinct voices in this highly polyphonic novel. We will also concentrate on language use (punctuation, layout, humour, poetic prose) and whether the presentation of the particular (a range of black British lives) can, though cultural mediation, lead to transcultural understanding.
Guided by the facilitator, participants will be encouraged to respond to the text and reflect on the issues listed in the objectives and any other observations arising from the discussion.
Evaristo, Bernardine, Girl, Woman, Other
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