Dr. Moira Di Mauro-Jackson
Office: Centennial 150
E-mail: md11@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.2360
Biography: Dr. Di Mauro-Jackson, a native Italian from Rome, completed her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in Italian, French and English Comparative Literature. Her field of study revolves around French, Italian, and English Narrative and Drama of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, as well as Computer Assisted Language Learning Technologies.
Since 1987, Professor Di Mauro-Jackson has been teaching French and later Italian at Texas State University, from where she received a Master of Arts. She has travelled extensively throughout the world and currently divides her time between study and teaching in Central Texas and Florence, Italy.
Her greatest joy is to teach Foreign languages & their cultures while in a fun and facilitated environment, while maintaining the quality of the immersion courses taught! As an Italian Study Abroad Program Director, she takes University students to Italy for a month every year.
Dr. Di Mauro-Jackson is also the advisor of the Texas State French Club (Le Cercle Français), the moderator of the French National Honor Society (Pi Delta Phi, Epsilon Tau chapter), as well as Vice-President of the Central Chapter Association of French Teachers (CTCAATF) and Regional Vice-President of the National Pi Delta Phi organization.
Research Interests: Dr. Di Mauro-Jackson's field of interest is metatextuality, that is, the tension between art and life, art and artifice, and the use of masks and masquerade in modern works. Her major focus lies in the French decadent period, those works following D’Annunzio’s time in Italian Literature as well as various Irish writers of the turn of the century such as Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Yeats. Dr. Di Mauro-Jackson is also constantly looking for ways to facilitate Language Learning while maintaining the students' joy and interest, as well as their insight into the outer world.
Courses Taught:
Professor Jackson's courses are designed to engender a greater awareness and understanding of different attitudes, behaviors and perspectives of countries, economies, cultures and people from around the world (francophone (French speaking countries) and more. In her courses students are exposed to an international educational experience that will help broaden the students’ cultural sensitivity and will "serve to improve one’s global awareness and business acumen which might lead to the de-velopment of a network of global connections essential for conducting business internationally" (Bremmer, 2006).
A. Courses Taught:
• Undergraduate Courses at Texas State San Marcos: Advanced Linguistics:
Linguistics 4390, Advanced Italian Grammar (Spring 2007)
• Undergraduate Courses at Texas State San Marcos: Beginning French, Intermediate French:
French 1410, First Semester Beginning French (1987 – present)
French 1420, Second Semester Beginning French (1987 – present)
French 2310, First Semester Intermediate French (1987 – present)
French 2320, Second Semester Intermediate French (1987 – present)
French 1410, First Semester Beginning French Summer I – Intensive (1987 – 2006)
French 1420, Second Semester Beginning French Summer II – Intensive (1987 – 2006)
• French Study Abroad Program at Texas State San Marcos:
French 1420, Second Semester Beginning French (Summer II, 2011)
French 2310, First Semester Intermediate French (Summer II, 2011)
French 2320, Second Semester Intermediate French (Summer II, 2011)
French 4390 French Life and Culture French (Summer II, 2011)
• University of Texas at Austin, Informal Classes: Conversational Italian (all levels):
Beginning Conversational Italian (1993 – 1998)
Intermediate Conversational Italian (1993 – 1998)
Advanced Conversational Italian (1993 – 1998)
Italian Life and Culture (1993 – 1998)
• Undergraduate: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Italian through Correspondence & Extensions office:
Italian 1410, First Semester Beginning Italian (2004 – present)
Italian 1420, Second Semester Beginning Italian (2004 – present)
Italian 2310, First Semester Intermediate Italian (2004 – present)
Italian 2320, Second Semester Intermediate Italian (2004 – present)
Italian 3308, Advanced Grammar and Composition (Spring 2010 – present)
Italian 4390: La Storia del Cinema Italiano (Spring 2007)
• l’Università degli studi Tor Vergata - la facoltà di economia e commercio:
Teaching Business Italian Abroad (Summer II, 2007)
• Italian Study Abroad Program at Texas State San Marcos:
Italian 2310, First Semester Intermediate Italian (2005 – present)
Italian 2320, Second Semester Intermediate Italian (2005 – present)
Italian Life and Culture (2005 – present)
Italian 3308, Advanced Grammar and Composition (2011– present)
• Honors College:
HON 3391W: Service Learning in Florence & Sorrento (2013 - present)
HON3397H: international Culture Course (2013 - present)
HON4391: Independent Study (2013 - present)
B. Courses Prepared and Curriculum Development:
• Undergraduate French Courses at Texas State: Beginning French and Intermediate French
• Undergraduate Advanced Linguistics Course at Texas State.
• Informal Classes at the University of Texas at Austin: Conversational Italian (all levels)
• Undergraduate Courses through the Correspondence and Extension office at Texas State University: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Italian courses, Italian Film Course, and Italian Life and Culture Course, Advanced Grammar course
• Developed & Directed Italian Study Abroad Program in Florence, Italy
C. Other:
• Member and participant of the McGraw-Hill Higher Education's World Languages' World Languages Technology Board of Advisors (Spring 2010)
• Member and participant of the Forum on Education Abroad (Spring 2007)
• Member, participant and presenter at the Annual Calico (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Conference (2005 – present)