COD 2018 - G981

Reading Breakfast: Going elsewhere: exploring places in post-millennial texts

Language and literature teachers, literature lovers

1 sessions, start: 03-Nov

Course detail

Year: 2018
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS 500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 500.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 03 November 2018 09:00 am 12:00 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).
Language and literature teachers, literature lovers
• To explore the focus on the concept of place in post-millennial literature.
• To respond to texts where the notion of place is deconstructed
• To discuss readers’ response to the term “elsewhere”.
- Geocriticism and the notion of place in literature
- Questioning the idea of universality and world literature
- Language and the representation of place in a global context
- Reader response and estrangement
The facilitator will outline issues related to the concept of place in geocriticism.
Participants will be encouraged to debate the concepts of "universality" and "world literature" as they respond to a series of texts where the notion of place is deconstructed.
Texts to be discussed (to be provided upon enrolment):

Donaldson, Julia, “The Ballad of Jemmy Button”
Pachico, Julianne, “Lucky”
Smith, Ali, “Elsewhere”

Reference:

Kirsch, Adam (2016). The Global Novel. New York: Columbia Global Reports.
Westphal, Bertrand (2011). Geocriticism. Real and Fictional Spaces. New York: Palgrave / Macmillan.
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