Colleen Ryan

Colleen Ryan is Professor of Italian at Indiana University, where she teaches courses across the curriculum, from the basic language sequence to content-based bridge courses, to full-immersion theater workshops and graduate seminars in foreign language teaching methods and second language acquisition. Ryan's work conjoins the study of literature, film, and theater in different ways. She is the author of Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini and co-editor ...See more

Colleen Ryan is Professor of Italian at Indiana University, where she teaches courses across the curriculum, from the basic language sequence to content-based bridge courses, to full-immersion theater workshops and graduate seminars in foreign language teaching methods and second language acquisition. Ryan's work conjoins the study of literature, film, and theater in different ways. She is the author of Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini and co-editor (with Nicoletta Marini Maio) of two pedagogical volumes: Set the Stage! Italian Language, Literature, and Culture through Theater. Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. (Yale, 2009) and Dramatic Interactions: Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures through Theater. Theoretical Approaches and Classroom Practices (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011). Ryan has also published a series of articles and studies on teacher training, educational drama, performance assessments, and teaching for intercultural competence, as well as critical works on women and gender in contemporary literature and film. See less