Committee
The Literature and Cultural Studies SIG Committee is:-
- David A.Hill - SIG Coordinator
- Amos Paran - Treasurer
- Alan Pulverness
- Stella Smyth - Newsletter Editor
- Jane Sherman - Membership Secretary
- Chris Lima - Discussion List Moderator
- Carel Burghout - Webmaster
David A. Hill is a free-lance materials writer and teacher trainer who works out of Budapest, Hungary. He has worked full time in the UK, Serbia and Italy, and these days regularly travels to around 12 different countries each year to work with teachers. He has written many country-specific courses, for Italy, China, Spain, Khazakstan, the Middle East, as well as original readers for CUP and Helbling. David is a published poet and translator of poetry; his fourth collection is under consideration. In autumn 2007 his edited collection of contemporary short stories for UK KS3 level was published by CUP. He has worked for IATEFL in a variety of capacities since 1998, and became LMCS SIG Events Coordinator in April 2007. At the Exeter Conference David became our SIG Coordinator.
Amos Paran: I gained my BA at Bar Ilan University and taught EFL in secondary schools in Israel before coming to the UK for my MA and PhD studies at the University of Reading. I now work at the Institute of Education, University of London, where I am the course leader of the MA in TESOL by Distance Learning. I have given workshops on literature in France, Spain, Switzerland, Chile and Israel, among others. He has recently edited a volume of case studies entitled Literature and Language Teaching and Learning , published by TESOL in the US
Alan Pulverness: Joint Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Examination in English for Language Teachers (CEELT) and co-author of a number of coursebooks, including The Macmillan Short Course Programme (awarded the ESU/Duke of Edinburgh Book Prize in 1993), which combines a language syllabus with cultural learning for students on short courses in the UK. He is the author of All in a Word: Literature in Language Teaching (Bell Educational Trust 1989). He was also editorial advisor to Mariella Scarpa for The Literary Labyrinth (Torino: SEI 1989). He has written articles on language teaching, literature and cultural studies for a wide range of journals, including British Studies Now, English Teaching Professional, Modern English Teacher and ELTJ. He has edited a number of issues of the Literature and Cultural Studies SIG Newsletter.
Stella Smyth. Born in Dublin , Stella began her career teaching English and history in Irish secondary schools. She then worked as a teacher, lecturer and teacher trainer in a variety of educational institutions in the UK and Asia . She has published articles and produced distant learning materials on literature and ELT. In her free time, she enjoys the theatre, tennis and free wheeling downhill on a tandem. Stella is employed by the University of Leicester where she designs, teaches and directs ESP, EAP, and literature courses for international students.
Chris is the LMCS discussion list moderator. She is also the coordinator of the Critical Literacy in ELT Project, for which she and her team were awarded the 2007 British Council Innovation Awards. She is also the coordinator of the ELT e-Reading Group Project developed in partnership with the British Council literature department. Chris holds a Degree in English from the University of London and is currently involved in teacher education programmes and networking.
Carel Burghout is a teacher trainer, assessor and lecturer from Fontys College of Education, Tilburg, The Netherlands. He creates web materials for education as a free-lance writer and edits IATEFL's Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Newsletter. Carel is the author of two slim volumes on dealing with literature in top forms (Eldorado) and is especially interested in children's reading and ways of promoting it.