Dr
Maria
Loftus

Primary Department
School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies
Role
Academic Staff
Phone number: 01 700
5512
Campus
Glasnevin Campus
Room Number
C2111

Academic biography

Maria Loftus is an Assistant Professor in French in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies. She holds a primary degree in Irish and French with higher degrees in French Literature and Language, Discourse and Representations, Applied Linguistics and a PhD in Sub-Saharan Documentary Cinema from French and Irish universities. Having published in international journals in the areas of protest and documentary cinema and visual representations of colonisation, she has also explored the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) field of students as creators of video content within a SLA context. 

More recently, her published work is centred at the nexus of creative outputs and intercultural dialogue. 

Research interests

She has co-supervised a PhD in designed and emerging affordances in tutor-learner multimodal interactions in video-conferencing. Maria welcomes proposals from prospective PhD students interested in the areas of student created multimedia content for the SLA classroom, telecollaboration and peer-led informal language learning.