Chosen teaching moments
Here is a short lecture part from my current Salomé reading course.
In this part of the 75 minutes session, after a few warm-ups and discussions, I presented the painter Gustave Moreau to my students. The power-point was a great way of showing them several Salomé from this painter.
After providing them with images to describe and sometimes analyze, I ask them to come back to the text. At home, they had to read a part from Huysmans A Rebours where des Esseintes is looking at two paintings from Moreau.
Their mission in class was to find enough clues in the text to be able to choose which two paintings were the ones the narrator was referring two – which they managed to perfectly do. A follow-up of this activity is dealing with other moments in the novel where Huysmans uses painting vocabulary in his descriptions.
This presentation (focused on Bloom's taxonomy) is a relevant example of both my pedagogical awareness and my capacity of turning theory into examples understandable by non-specialists.
This video also gives an accurate example of my presentation skills as well as my capabilities of giving a talk in English even though my native language is French.
This is a brief presentation, in English, showing how science and painting together gave birth to cinema at the end of the nineteenth century.
