John Casale

John Casale, B.A.

Lecturer (Wykładowca) (winter term 2017-2018)

Centre for English Language Teaching

Office: Collegium Novum, room 306A
Phone: (+48) 61 829 3522
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 1992

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