Silvana Serrani

The project is to be partially developed during a sabbatical period of research at Columbia University, US.

The goal of this research is to study recent bilingual poetry anthologies published in two of the following three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese. The corpus will be composed of anthologies including works of several authors of the literary canon, published in the last decade in the US, Brazil and Argentina. The study will consist of a dual approach:

(1) An analysis of the bilingual anthologies as domains of discursive construction of social representations of trans-cultural identities;

(2) A comparative examination of the pedagogical instructions regarding bilingual anthologies, in curricula of language teachers' formation in New York Colleges and in the public Universities of Sao Paulo, Brazil. A concomitant result of the research will be the composition of a bank of information on bilingual anthologies organized by taking into account different linguistic, literary, trans-cultural and pedagogical cartographies

Serrani, Silvana (2004) “Culture maternelle, reformulation discursive et enseignement des langues au Brésil”. Cahiers du français contemporain 10, Lyon, França, ISSN 0765 -068X, pp. 51-65.

Serrani, Silvana (2004) “Profesor de lenguas como interculturalista”. Lenguas Vivas 3-4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 4-14.