Clarissa Menezes Jordao

Curitiba, Brazil

Professora

Education

Clarissa holds a Master´s Degree in English-language literatures and a PhD in literary education. She currently works at the Federal University of Parana, Brazil, in the areas of Applied Linguistics and Language Education. She also coordinates the university´s Extension/Outreach Center for Language Teachers in collaboration with public school teachers. She supervises both M.A and PhD candidates. Her main research interests are critical literacies; foreign/second/additional language teaching; teacher education; discursive implications of globalization and development studies; poststructuralist and postcolonial praxes, especially those related to discourse and representation.