call for papers: volume on teaching through theater

[Karen Evans-Romaine]

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Karen Evans-Romaine
Director, Davis School of Russian, Middlebury College
Associate Professor of Russian, Ohio University

Call for papers

Dramatic Interactions: Teaching Literature, Culture, and Language through Theater

In the last twenty years, the use of dramatic techniques has increasingly
contributed to foreign language teaching methodology, bringing life and
excitement to in-class practice and promoting the speaking of the language
outside the class.  In many cases, staging and performing cultural situations
and literary works in the foreign language have been of primary importance in
the actual process of comprehending the “other.” This volume will offer a
panorama of the most recent and concrete experiences and methodologies of the
teaching of literature, culture, and language through theater and drama used in
secondary and higher foreign language instruction.  

We welcome articles of theoretical and practical orientation that deal with the
teaching methodology of literature, culture, and language through theater and
drama at any level of the acquisition of the language.  In particular, we seek
contributions from the following fields: foreign language acquisition, teaching
pedagogy, performative studies, literature in the foreign language curriculum,
cultural studies, and cross-cultural communication studies. Examples from less
commonly taught languages and multimedia integration are strongly encouraged. 

Please send an abstract of 500 words and a bibliography to both Colleen
Ryan-Scheutz and Nicoletta Marini-Maio by March 1, 2007.

Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, Ph.D.
William M. Scholl Chair, Associate Professor of Italian
Director of Italian Language Program
University of Notre Dame
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Notre Dame, IN 46556 (U.S.A.)
Ph: (574) 631-3835
Fax: (574) 631-3493
email ryan.104 at nd.edu

Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Assistant Professor of Italian
Middlebury College
Department of Italian
Voter Hall 111
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753 (USA)
Ph: (802) 443-5977
Fax: (802) 443-2251
email nmarini at middlebury.edu

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