Geb. 1964, Senior Lecturer seit 1993, Großbritannien/Nordirland
Sprachwissenschaft - Didaktik - DaF - German Studies (Fachgebiet)
- German Language and culture; English Language and Culture; Literary and political Cabaret/ Kabarett as a project within language teaching classes (I first explored my unique combination in a substantial chapter in my extended essay for my PGCE at Exeter 1988-89, and then introduced my first designs with sixth formers, 1989-90 (Lehrgebiet)
Kontaktinformationen:
With my professional trade bodies and publishers since 1990s/ 2000
Motivation and humour in language learning ( self-initiated project, 1987-88, to investigate teaching methods for languages in German schools and in teacher training courses at German universities ( Konstanz and West Berlin)
Ms McNally has developed an innovative approach to integrate humorous genres and texts to the advanced language classroom. This approach [worked on by me since 1988] integrates literary, historical, socio-political, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical aspects on an analytical and practical level (Dr Christian Fandrych, 2 Aug 1997)
Cultural activities within camps and imprisonments ( 2000 onwards);: Forced and slave labour and forced marches, especially in and from Auschwitz III area (2002 onwards)
Self-preservation and survival strategies ( exploration began in 1986 within the context of Kafka’s shorter fiction, and supervised by Prof John J. White, for which I was awarded distinction and First Class Hons in German with French subsidiary, 1987).
Monographien
In April 1995 I submitted TWO very substantial chapters of my PhD work (registered p/t at King’s College London since Jan 1992) on my unique combination of Cabaret/ Kabarett and language learning, and officially passed the ( new stipulation) of an MPhil stage in July 1995. In Sept 1997, Head of Personnel and others in management at University of Brighton tried to get me to ‘downgrade my PhD to MPhil’ and wrote this in official documents). These highly original chapters contain many of my unique concepts, and were not returned to me. In 2015, when I was being offered employment at Languages Department at University of Jordan, this official certificate from Academic Registry at King’s College London, seemed significant and was required by the Dean ( his PhD had focused on intonation and tonal aspects of language, and he was very excited about some of my new books). Subsequently, I had meetings in July 2015 with the President of German-Jordanian University who was especially interested in my publication of 2000, especially my bibliography, and the fact that my work also covered semiotics, and he mentioned that they have approx one hundred teachers of German. They received my CV and publications lists ahead of the meetings, yet NO PAID OR NON-PAID WORK was forthcoming
Joanne Maria McNally. Creative Misbehaviour: The Use of German Kabarett within Advanced Foreign Language Learning Classrooms, 2000 . The European publication and market…(in 2015 I discovered that Peter Lang had created three versions of my book within six weeks from 1 Sept 2000 onwards. My contract stipulates that I am entitled to 10% of published price of every copy sold. I have not even recovered the costs for the printing of my PhD (five silk-bound originals), let alone the £1000 I had to contribute towards printing costs.)
Joanne McNally. Creative Misbehaviour: The Use of German Kabarett within Advanced Foreign Language Learning Classrooms, New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2000 (as listed on January 2003 in database: GERMAN HUMOR (INCLUDES AUSTRIA, AND SWITZERLAND) by Don L.F. Nielsen, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe)
From 1993 onwards it was known that my doctorate work was highly innovative and complex in terms of theory and practice-related exploration, analysis and a concise synthesis. In order to achieve this I worked across major disciplines including literature and linguistic studies, and media studies, which I first had to explore in depth, in order to create my important synthesis. One unique outcome of my analytical and didactic approach of the artistic genre of Kabarett, apart from my taxonomy, are my four categories for the genre
On 27 June 1998, after I had submitted my monograph on German Kabarett to German Life and Letters, I was informed that “it had gone straight into circulation among editors”
I had been analyzing and creating teaching and learning materials since 1985, curriculum designs since 1987; and focusing on the four skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing also since 1987
From 1988-89 onwards I was exploring how to integrate these in an effective way as a project with literary and political project as the framework. One External Examiner for my PhD wrote in his report prior to the viva: ‘two other important (and original ) features are the description and documentation of a pilot project , and a set of detailed teaching-learning schedules…The approach is lively and imaginative, but also in general realistic and practicable’ (WJ Jones, 22 August 1999)
Some of my other PhD chapters ( and I have many of my electronic drafts and print-outs since 1992) are extremely important in terms of ambiguity and the understanding processes, and some of my unique concepts, and it has always been my intention to publish some of this work separately as monographs (Stefan Neuhaus commented on the importance of my concept ‘strategic ambivalence’ in his review of Sigrid Bauschinger’s Die Freche Muse. Literarisches und politisches Kabarett Von 1901 bis 1999, for ‘Wirkendes Wort’, 2001)
In May 2022, Emeritus Prof.Dr. Dietmar Roesler informed me that my PhD work on Kabarett and DaF is still ‘das umfassendste Werk’ on the subject
By 2004-5, it was well known that I had done the equivalence of a second PhD for my historical work on the different concentration and work camps between 1933 and 1949, their structures including command structures, the categorizations of different kinds of inmates and prisoners and their work routines, food rations, punishments, health and injuries, and their forced marches 1944 onwards. My manuscript of 2004 ( first complete monograph, although leading publishers and agents had requested to see my 2003 full manuscript ahead of face to face meetings we then had in London) includes all these original findings and sets them out in a clear and accessible way
In November 2021, this work with extracts from my sample book of 2015: Marching without Knowing. Underground Auschwitz, was requested by an interested London-based agent, who, as (now former) employee at Curtis Brown Agency had first phoned me in Grimsby in 2004 concerning my initial manuscript
In 2012 I began work on a new monograph on creativity in art and literature and as a kind of dialogue with Jacques Maritain’s 1953 publication delivered at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. This was also in anticipation of an invitation to me to work at Birzeit University, following a successful interview
Aufsätze und Beiträge
Cabaret/Kabarett: an intercultural project for advanced learners of German within institutionalised language learning, 24th June 1994, IRAAL Conference: Language, Education and Society in a Changing World ( Abstracts of Conference, p. 50). As part of my publication before an international audience of about fifty, I showed a video I had made of mature students performing a satirical song they had written, and also handed out questionnaires that I had especially designed ( and redesigned as part of my Kabarett Project)
