Glottodrama

Carlo Nofri _P1
Chief editor of the review Culturiana (www.culturiana.it), has a degree in Language Philosophy and works as a teacher of glottodidactics for the Summer Centre for Foreigners of the Arts Faculty of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.  He is the author of numerous articles and publications on the teaching of modern languages and has focused his research in particular on the relationship between language and thought (see “Language and  Mental Imagery”, 1991, Preface by Tullio De Mauro) as well as on the problems of communication and of glottodidactics.  He coordinated the pilot project  “Italnet” (Leonardo da Vinci  Programme 1995/1998) and is currently leading the multilateral LLP “Glottodrama” project.

Stefania Bucciarelli_P1
has a degree in History of Theatre and Entertainment from “La Sapienza” University of Rome and is currently executive producer for TV channel “La7”.  Since 1987 she has produced cinema and theatre programmes, talk shows that deal with current affairs, and notably the first and second Italian Language National Championship, a weekly programme presented by Luciano Rispoli.  From 1984 to 1987 she taught literature in secondary schools. She is an editor for “Culturiana” and is the author of some of the teaching material for the “Glottodrama” project and also takes care of the audiovisual aspects of the project.

Carolina Drago_P1
has a degree in Art History and Entertainment from “La Sapienza” University of Rome.  She has worked as assistant director for several theatre companies and is the author of screenplays and scripts for cinema and for television.  She is also a journalist and assistant editor of the journal “Culturiana”. For the “Glottodrama” project takes care of the audiovisual aspects and is author of some teaching materials.

Maurizio Masella_P1/P3
has a degree in Literature with Entertainment from “La Sapienza” University of Rome, he took a postgraduate course in the Teaching of Italian as a Foreign Language at the University of Rome “RomaTre” and gained second level DITALS certification from the Siena University for Foreigners.
Since his first university years he took courses in acting and in theatre workshops to train himself and worked as a theatre actor with several film directors, until he began to run his own courses.
As a teacher of Italian as a Foreign Language, he works in several contexts: in “Glottodrama” he takes a double role as theatre trainer in CTP Nelson Mandela and as a member of a research group, in which he works on the production of textual input and on “sillabo”.

Tiziana Migliaccio_P1
has a degree in Literature and is a postgraduate student in Italian studies at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She has given courses that combine grammar and linguistics to first year students at Tor Vergata.  She has taken courses in the didactics of Italian for foreigners and has given courses at the Centre for Foreigners Tor Vergata.  She contributes to the journal “Sincronie”, a half-yearly review of literature, theatre and thought processes.  She is also an editor for “Culturiana”. For the “Glottodrama” project took care of management of the international conference on “Dramatic techniques and modern language teaching”on December 2008 at Frascati, Rome.

Maria Squarcione_P1
Maria Squarcione has a PhD in Italian Studies, with strong experience in university teaching as well as vast experience in training both, in the public and private sphere. In particular, she took the Glottodidactics training course at the “Torre di Babele” school, and at the same time followed the related training for the teaching of Italian as a foreign language. She gained similar experience from the classes for foreigners that were held for a training project at the Arts Faculty of the University of Tor Vergata. She is currently a collaborator for the “Culturiana” magazine and is part of the European “Glottodrama” project.

Roberto Tomassetti_P1
teaches Italian to foreigners.  He is involved in teacher training, linguistic training (CILS), glottodidactics (DITALS) and academic research at the Siena University for Foreigners.  This research, coordinated by Pierangela Diadori, is carried out in a cross-European context and looks at the characteristics of the training of foreign language teachers in Italy and in Europe.  He is the author of several articles for glottodidactic journals and also deals with ICT applied to the language teaching.  He is currently managing the communication aspects in the “Glottodrama” project.

Florinda Nardi_P2
is a researcher in Italian Theatre Literature at the Faculty of Literature and Philiosophy of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”; coordinator of the CLICI (Centre of Italian Language and Culture) of the same university for which she is responsible for courses of Italian Language and Culture for foreigners; a teacher since 1999 of Italian to foreigners with experience also from foreign universities; didactic coordinator and coordinator and teacher for the Level II  Master in “Theory, Methodologies and Routes in Italian Language and Culture for Foreign Students”, directed by L.R. Caputo, using a distance-learning method, for the Iad (School of Distance Learning) of the University of  Rome “Tor Vergata”.  She is also teacher of Italian at the same university for the experimental Glottodrama classes.

Marta Paglioni_P2
is director of the  "Workshops" section of the  Ugo Betti Theatre of  Rome.  She has a diploma in acting from the Teatro dell'Orologio, is an I.M.A.I.E  grant holder for an annual course in the Stanislavskij-Strasberg method with the  coach Ilza Prestinari, an ex-pupil of  Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio of New York. She is experienced as an actress and director at several Rome theatre companies since 2001 and has experience in the sphere of theatre workshops for children, adults and the disabled. She is a teacher of theatre for the experimental classes of Glottodrama at the University of Tor Vergata.

Lucia Caioli_P3
Teacher of Italian language and culture for foreign students, worked with spanish students at Italian schools abroad for 14 years and has 37 years of experience on teaching. Since 2007 she has been teaching at The First Permanent Rome Local Centre “N. Mandela”, an integral part of the Comprehensive State Institute “D. Manin” where also teaches Italian grammar on Glottodrama experimental course.

Kostantina Zogopoulou_P4
studied Modern Literature at the Universities of Florence and Perugia.  At the university of Perugia she followed training courses for teachers of Italian living abroad. Since 1979 she has been an Italian teacher in Greece and since 1982, the owner of the “Perugia” School of Italian Language and Culture in Athens. She is the author and editor of books for the learning of Italian (Edizioni Perugia – Athens). She is also the co-author of dictionaries (Italian-Greek / Greek-Italian) in circulation both in Greece (edizioni Perugia) and in Italy (edizioni Zanichelli). She also coordinates the  Glottodrama course held at her school

Antonio Damascelli_P4
After graduating in Modern Literature from the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Lecce (1992) with a thesis in the history of theatre and entertainment, he moved to Greece where for 17 years he has been owner of courses in Italian language and literature at both public and private universities. He is the author of manuals for the preparation of the exams for the Certification of the knowledge of Italian language (Celi) and of various translations of literary, philosophical and cinematographic works, distributed both in Greece and in Italy.  He is an Italian language teacher for the Glottodrama classes held at the "Perugia" school in Athens.

Jason Dousis_P4
After participating as a student  in  various  stage plays at the American College of Athens, Jason Doussis got two degrees: one from the department of Theatre Studies at the University of Patras, the other one from the drama school “Akis Davis”. He attended many seminars by American, Italian, Greek and Polish professors on various dramatic techniques. He founded, along with other young actors,  an experimental acting company named “The Youngs’Company”.

Dr. Roxana Utale_P5
is a teacher of Italian in the Italian Department of the Modern Languages Faculty of the University of Bucharest.  She started as a “preparator” (the first academic level) and is currently “lector” (level three in a scale of five academic levels).  She is the owner of the courses: “Italian Literature and Culture of the Nineteenth Century”, “Italian Civilisation”, “Eduardo De Filippo: from a dialect to a national theatre”, “Italian Theatre in the Twentieth Century” and “Translatology”. She also gives practical Italian language courses.  She  published a Romanian-Italian dictionary (Bucarest, Gramar, 2006), as well as essays on Italian theatre and on Dino Buzzati.  She has translated works of Leopardi and of Niccolò Ammanniti and is the editor of the Romanian edition of Goldoni’s theatre (Bucaresti, Humanitas, 2007).

Maria Rotar _ P5
In spite of her young age, she has already two degrees: Foreign Languages and Literatures (philology major) from the University of Bucarest, Figurative Arts from Hyperion University. Paradoxically she was able to utilize both the degrees : She won some Erasmus scholarships in Italy as a philology student, but she also took various acting courses abroad, mostly in Italy again. Although many directors chose her to play a role in their shows in important theatres of the Romanian capital, Maria Rotar decided to be herself  a director. Now she is in her second year of  theatre direction at the National University of  Drama and Film of Bucarest.

Marius Gîlea_P5
E Marius Gîlea_P5: is a graduate of the Film and Theatre Academy “Ion Luca Caragiale” of Bucharest (1993), where he now teaches the Art of the Actor. His ability as a comic actor has brought him to the attention of theatre and film directors since his first year of studies. Since then he has performed many roles, from dramatic texts. Both ancient and contemporary of foreign and Romanian authors. In 2008 he obtained the title of Doctor with a thesis dedicated to theatrical improvisation. He is a teacher of theatre for the Glottodrama classes held at the University of Bucharest.

Valentina Fago_P6
has a diploma from the High School of Dramatic Art of the National Theatre of Turin and is the holder, from the Ateliers Varan, of a DEA in theatre studies from the University of Paris 3; she has great experience both as a theatre actor – she has worked under the direction of Luca Ronconi – and as a teacher of dramatic art, also in a school context. She teaches theatre for the  Glottodrama classes held at the University La Sorbonne of Paris.

Tiziana Jacoponi_P6
teaches at the University of Paris I, “La Sorbonne” and gives beginner level courses in Italian and courses in contemporary Italian civilization. She also gives courses in contemporary Italian civilisation at the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris. At the CRFP of Versailles she trains future lawyers in Italian.  At the IUT, Pôle métiers du livre, University of Paris X, Nanterre - Saint Cloud, she gives Italian courses to beginners. From 2000 to 2005 she gave weekly courses in Italian at the OCSE. From 1998 to 2005 she was Language Assistant at the University of Paris X Nanterre and gave courses in Italian language and culture to students of the LEA and LCE. In 1997-98 she was the European representative for the Leonardo project against neglect and scholastic dispersion. She is also teacher of Italian for the experimental Glottodrama classes at the  university of Paris I, “La Sorbonne”.

Patrizia Molteni_P6
is the founder and president of the “Centre de Recherches et d’Etudes Italiennes”, the founder-member of the Italian Language Project in France and is part of the management of ClubMediaFrance.  She set up and continues to run the Centre for Pedagogical Documentation for the Teaching of Italian as a foreign language at the “Centre de Recherches et d’Etudes Italiennes”.  She is also a consultant for the Italian Institute of Culture, the audio-visual library of the Pompidou Centre and for the Nice audio-visual library.  She started the “Italian Language Day” whose seventh event will take place in Paris in June 2007.  For ENAIP France she is a planner and coordinator of several European projects (Leonardo) working in partnership with Italian regions and provinces in the framework of new legislation regarding employment services and career counseling. She also coordinates the  Glottodrama course held at the University La Sorbonne of Paris 1.