Last updated by grzegorz on 2020-02-08. Originally submitted by tomash on 2012-09-21.
John Casale, B.A.
Senior Lecturer (Starszy wykładowca)
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 204
Phone: (+48) 61 829 1019
E-mail: jcasale@wa.amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link
Degrees
- BA in English, Philosophy, Film History, Albany State University
- Currently an MA student in the Faculty of English, UAM Poznań
Research interests
- Intercultural, contrastive rhetoric
- Narrative and dramatic techniques in the classroom
- Screenplay: Action, Narration, Progression and Resolution
- Polish medieval myth – Jagiellonian legends and the “Trail of the Eagles’ Nests”
Teaching experience
- TEFL at university level
- WA Faculty of English 2012 – 2013
- NKJO Poznan 1995 – 2012
- KJO Wrzesnia 2008 – 2015
- KJO Gniezno 1996 – 2007
- KJO Pniewy, Wagrowiec
- Positions and functions: Senior Lecturer; Lecturer; Exam Committee Coordinator; Course and Syllabus Coordinator
- Courses taught: American Life and Institutions; American History; EFL Writing 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd year; EFL Speaking; EFL Reading; British Culture; British History; Screenplay
Teacher trainer experience
- NKJO ‘INSETT’ Trainer, Zajaczkowo
- “Use of Debate in the Classroom”, 2000
- “Technology in the Classroom”, 2000
- “Narratives and Drama in the Classroom”, 2001
- “Decision Making and Group Consensus”, 2001
- “Short and Sweet: Creative Classroom Activities”, 2002
- “American Culture Creatively”, 2007
Other professional experience
- EFL College Theater - Coordinator, Director, Writer at “English Language Theater Festival", Bydgoszcz 1997, 1999 – 2006, 2010
- EFL College Theater - Coordinator, Artistic Director at “Poetry and Prose Festival”, Slupsk 1998, 1999
Editor
- “A Collection of Lessons on the District of Wrzesnia” ©2011
Publications
- Screenplay: “The Phantom on Horseback”, U.S. Library of Congress © 2010/2016 (Casale)
- Screenplay: “The Good Hood”, U.S. Library of Congress © 2015 (Casale and Szumowski), WGAe
- Screenplay: “Limbo”, U.S. Library of Congress © pending 2016/17 (Casale), WGAe
