Guest Speakers of several portal projects dedicated to the Creative Writing and the Teaching of English transmission of content like bubok.com, MailxMail as a Foreign Language and Unaplauso.com. He has been on the faculty of Bahiyyih Nakhjavani was various Universities in the United States in the area born in , raised in Salón de Actos of creativity including the Massachusetts College of , and educated in Art, Parsons School of Design and Emerson Edif. Germán Bernácer the UK and the States. College. Mr. Delgado Guitart lived and worked in She has taught English the United States for fifteen years, primarily in Monday, 18th April and Related literature at Boston. York University in Toronto, 09:00 – 09:30 Opening Georgetown University in Marjorie Kanter, author of Washington, and the short literary and poem-like • Dr. Jorge Olcina Cantos, Dean of the Faculty University of Freetown in pieces, holds degrees from of Arts Sierra Leone. She has lived and worked in the Ohio University and the • Dr. José Antonio Álvarez Amorós, Head of Middle East as well as Europe, Africa and North University of Cincinnati. She the Department of English Studies America and has published four books of non- first visited Spain in 1965 • Ms. Marián Alesón Carbonell, Academic fiction as well as three novels. 'The Saddlebag' and has lived between Secretary of the Department of English (2000), translated into over 15 languages and Madrid and Tarifa for the Studies 'Paper' (2004) were published by Bloomsbury, and past 27 years. Author of I • Dra. Victoria Guillén Nieto, Coordinator 'The Woman Who Read Too Much' is published in displace the air as I walk , French by Actes Sud, Italian by Rizzoli and most The Saddle Stitch recently Spanish by Alianza. This novel, nominated Notebooks , The Bagged Stories and Im/politeness: for the 2008 Latifeh Yashater Award, was inspired One Hundred Im/polite Days amongst other texts, PART I by the life and times of Tahirih, Qurratu'l-Ayn, a she has participated in Public Word Art Installations CREATIVE WRITING Persian poet of 19th century Qajar Iran who and Interactive Projects at La Caixa, Lleida ( In- shocked her contemporaries by her rejection of the Comunicación ); La Noche en Blanco , Madrid 09:30 – 10:30 veil. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani was awarded an (Historias para la Espera ) and for Madrid Abierto . Reading and Writing: Language and the honourary doctorate by the University of Liège, She gives workshops and seminars in creativity Creative Process , in 2007 and now lives in , where and writing. Her conference presentations include Dr. Bahiyyih NAKHJAVANI she teaches English and runs a bi-lingual creative mixing creativity and research in various areas of writing workshop at the Ecole Superieure des Arts linguistics. She considers herself a creative 10:45 – 11:45 Decoratifs in Strasbourg. ethnographer, mixing her training and professional The New Publishing Paradigm

experience as a Speech Therapist (1965-1985) and Mr. José Luis DELGADO GUITART Mr. Delgado Guitart is a her interests and studies in the areas of consultant in creativity and communication, linguistics, language development, innovation for the publishing psychology, sociology and interculturality with her PART II industry. In the last years his found creativity. In her writing, she strives to mesh CREATIVITY AND WRITING:A THREADED clients have and include: (all) her different selves, experiences and interests . SEQUENCE Elsevier, Harcourt, McGraw Writing found me. A need to communicate with self, Hill, Santillana, Thompson, take distance, get inside my feelings and 12:00 – 14:00 Publidisa and Cambridge experiences, all provoked me to keep journals that Fun with words + silences University Press. He is also slowly turned into finished poem-like pieces often in Ms. Marjorie KANTER a consultant for Kaplan narrative form . (www.elsunto.com/mkd.htm). University. He is co-founder

Tuesday, 19th April

09:30 – 11:30 In-communication Departament de Filologia Anglesa Ms. Marjorie KANTER Departamento de Filología Inglesa

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break Creative Writing and the 12:00 – 14:00 Transformations, Multiplicities, Teaching of English as a and Essences

Ms. Marjorie KANTER Foreign Language

For further information, please contact: Convenor Secretaría del Departamento de Filología Inglesa Department of English Studies Facultad de Filosofía y Letras I Faculty of Arts Universidad de Alicante Telephone: 965903439 University of Alicante Email: [email protected] 18th and 19th April 2011