Saturday 10 June, 2023
Writer, Teacher Educator and Singer
Claudia Mónica Ferradas is a writer, teacher educator and singer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she graduated as a teacher of English and has taught language and literature for many years. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham.
She has extensive international experience as a teacher trainer and conference presenter and has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature (Corpus Christi College) on five occasions. She often works as a consultant for Oxford University Press and Trinity College London Argentina.
She teaches on the MA programme in Foreign Languages at the Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina, and is an Affiliate Trainer with NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education), UK. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain and Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. She has published numerous academic papers, contributions to books and intercultural ELT materials and is a member of several editorial boards.
Claudia writes poetry in Spanish and in English. In her poetry readings, she likes to put poetry in dialogue with songs. She also has a multilingual poetry and drama podcast and a YouTube channel which features academic presentations and poetry readings.