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Patricia Costa, PhD

Associate Professor
Director Foundation Programme

Tel. +32 2 629 27 95 / Fax +32 2 629 36 37
E-mail: pcosta@vub.ac.be

Subjects taught:
  • Short Story and Novella
  • Literature and Communication
  • Language and Communication
  • Values and Society:  The Problem of Free Will
  • Critical Thinking and Academic Writing

Education:

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and French -- 1980
City University of New York
New York, NY  USA

M.A. in French -- 1972
Rochester University, Paris Campus
Rochester, NY  USA

B.A. in French -- 1969
Mundelein College
Chicago, IL   USA

Research Interests:
  • Elizabethan popular prose
  • Pico della Mirandola and modern humanism
  • Integrative studies (humanities & business)

Select Publications:
“Aiming at the Wider Audience:  Strategies for Embedding Latin in Elizabethan Popular Prose.”  Poetics and Applied Linguistics Association.  “Style and Communication.”  2007 Annual Conference.  Osaka, Japan. August 2007.

 “Who Is Giovanni Pico and Why Should We Care?”  The Durrell School of Corfu. Seminar on “The Writer’s Reputation:  Gender, Time, Geography.” June 2007.

“Choosing Our Words Carefully:  A Rhetoric for International Liberal Education.”  American Conference of Academic Deans/Phi Beta Kappa Society.  “Liberal Arts Education in American and the World.”  Washington, D.C. October 2005.

Languages:
English, French and Italian

Nationality:
American and Italian