Dr
Piera Carroli
Profile
Piera Carroli completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics
in 2005 at the Australian National University. The title of her thesis
was "World in a text, words in context" - Enhancing the
role of literature in language learning. In 1991 she completed
a Master in Arts in Contemporary Italian Narrative at Flinders University,
Adelaide. Curriculum Vitae
In 2000 she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award
for Excellence in Teaching.
Her major research areas are the role of literary texts
in second language teaching and learning, postcolonial italian literature and literature of migration in Italy and Europe and
contemporary Italian narrative.
Biografia
Piera Carroli, nata in Italia, è docente di
lingua, letteratura e linguistica italiana e responsabile dell’Italianistica
presso l’Australian National University a Canberra, in Australia.
Nel 2000 le è stato assegnato il premio “Vice-Chancellor’s
Award for Excellence in Teaching” dal Rettore dell’ANU.
Ha conseguito il Master of Arts nel 1991 presso la Flinders University
of South Australia. Ha pubblicato in campi di ricerca quali letteratura,
linguistica, pedagogia, in Italia, Inghilterra, Australia e America.
Attualmente si occupa di pedagogia della letteratura L2 e dell’insegnamento
in chiave interculturale di lingua e letteratura. Nel 1993 ha pubblicato
Esperienza e narrazione nella scrittura di Alba de Céspedes
(Ravenna: Longo 1993), unica monografia edita.
Selected Publications
Carroli, P. (2008). Literature in Second Language Education: Enhancing the Role of Texts in Learning. London: Continuum.
"For teachers and researchers, the book offers easily replicable research approaches and concrete exercises for a cyclical pedagogy of the literary text.
This book is a delight. A must for any undergraduate or graduate course in language and literacy education."
Professor Claire Kramsch, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Carroli, P. (2008). Juxtapositions of Old and New Sicily in Camilleri's Detective Literature, Journal of Sicilian Folklore and Literature, 29 (1 & 2): 44-55. New York: Arba Sicula.
Carroli, P. (2006). L’Africa in Italia: Dialogo
e scambio interculturale nel racconto di Pap Khouma, Io, venditore
di elefanti. Italiano a stranieri (ILSA) Rivista quadrimestrale per
l’insegnamento dell’italiano come lingua straniera/seconda.
Numero 1, aprile 2006.
Carroli, P. (2006). Italia europea e mediterranea: diversità, unità, interculturalismo (European and mediterranean Italy: diversity, unity and interculturalism). In Van den Bossche, B. (Ed.), Italia e Europa: Dalla cultura nazionale all'interculturalismo. Firenze: Cesati.
Carroli, P. & Maurer, L. (2005). Issues of Inclusion and Representation:
Teaching Literature and Culture across Art Forms. Subtheme 1: New Foundations
– Grounding Language and Literature Studies in Ethics. In Suthira
Duangsamosorn et al. (a cura di), Re-imagining Language and Literature
for the 21st Century. Amsterdam-New York: Textxet – Studies
in Comparative Literature.
Speziali, C. & Carroli, P. (2005). L’Italia fuori d’Italia.
In Iørn Korzen (a cura di), Lingua, cultura e intercultura:
l’italiano e le altre lingue. Copenhagen: Studies in Language
– Samfundslitteratur Press.
Carroli, P. & Speziali, C. (2004). Mediazione equilibrata tra lingua
e cultura: un aspetto fondamentale della didattica del parlato L2. Un
esempio australiano. Multimedia Proceedings of the conference "Il
Parlato italiano" held in Naples, 13-15 February, 2003. Naples:
M. D'Auria Editore. CD-Rom.
Carroli, P. & Speziali, C. (2004). Benvenuti in questo ambiente:
intersezioni tra libro e computer. In D’Achille, P. (Ed.), Atti
del convegno SILFI 2002. Roma: Cesati.
Carroli, Piera, A. Pavone & E. Tudini.(2003) “Face value:
Teaching Italian Verbal and Social-Cultural Interaction”. In Lo
Bianco, J. & Crozet, C. (Eds.) Teaching Invisible Culture: Classroom
Practice and Theory. Melbourne: Language Australia.
Carroli, Piera, (2003) “L2 Literature through the eyes of the
learners: epistemologies of culture and language learning”. Atti
del convegno: International Symposium “Current Issues in Phenomenography”.
ANU, CEDAM: 27-30/11/03.
Carroli, Piera (2002) “Percezioni a confronto: la letteratura
secondo studenti, educatori e teorici”. Atti del Convegno
Innovations in Italian Teaching. Griffith Uni. Brisbane, Australia.
Carroli, P. (2000) Alba de Céspedes Revisited. In Nerenberg,
E. & C. Gallucci (eds.), Writing Beyond Fascism: Cultural Resistance
in the Life and Works of Alba de Céspedes. Madison, NJ.
Carroli, P. (2000) ‘Camilla Cederna’, ‘Alba de Céspedes’,
‘Francesca Duranti’, ‘Natalia Ginzburg’,‘Elsa
Morante’, ‘Susanna Tamaro’. In Moliterno G. (ed.)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture.
Carroli, P., R. Hillman & L. Maurer. (1999) ‘Australian Perspectives
on (Inter)national European Narratives.’ In J. Lo Bianco, A.J.
Liddicoat & C. Crozet (eds.) Striving for the Third Place: Intercultural
Competence through Language Education. Canberra. 155-165.
Carroli, P. (1998)‘Clizia: tra poesia e autobiografia.’
La Ricerca 12: 17-58.
Carroli, P. (1996)‘Quaderno proibito: A Silenced Woman’s
Voice in Post-War Italy.’ Studi d’Italianistica nell’Africa
australe 9 (2): 99-113.
