the Department of German in the role of Austrian Academic Exchange Lecturer (OeAD) in August 2015 and has since taught language, literature, and linguistics across all years of the undergraduate programmes. In the MA Translation, he teaches GE6014 translation into German and supervises translation projects in the module LL6035. He has co-supervised/co-examined theses in MA Applied Linguistics and MA Translation. Dragan has also contributed to the teaching of the MA Applied Linguistics, convening the module "Language Teaching and Post-Colonialism" in 2016 and 2017. He is currently the coordinator for First Year Language, the Languages for All-programme, as well as the German language side for the programmes MA in Translation and the HDip in Advanced Languages and Global Communication. He is also in charge of the departmental evening class program and serves as the departmental webmaster.
Dragan completed the BA Translation Studies with working languages German, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and French and the MA German as a Foreign and Second Language at the University of Vienna. He also completed several modules in the MA Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2014, he obtained his master’s degree in German as a Foreign and Second Language with a thesis on the term „Zweitsprache" (second language), analysing the potential discriminatory practice behind it and inherent social consequences for people being labelled by this term. In 2018, he completed the postgraduate course Teaching at Higher Education Institutions Abroad: Further Qualification for University Lecturers at the University of Vienna. Since 2020, he is a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA).
Dragan embarked on his professional teaching career in 2011, when he started teaching German as a Second Language at multiple institutions for further education in Austria as well as tailor-made courses for companies.
In April 2021, he received the Teaching Hero Award by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. In December 2022, he was presented with the UCC President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Aside from teaching, Dragan has held several workshops of further education/professional development for German teachers and presented at conferences internationally. He has also been involved in organising several conferences and workshops, such as the 3rd International Scenario Forum Conference, (dis)Covering Discourses, the GSAI Annual Conference, Austria Days, and more recently the Scenario Forum Online Research Colloquium Series, which has been running since summer 2020, as well as the Scenario Forum Symposium in June 2021. In August 2022, he was co-section head for the section on performative teaching in German language teaching at the International Conference for German Teachers (IDT) in Vienna with over 2,800 delegates.
His research interest lies in critical applied linguistic as well as language teaching pedagogy. He is currently completing a part-time PhD project researching the beliefs of OeAD-lecturers (Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation) about language teaching and specifically about performative approaches, supervised by Dr Barbara Siller (UCC), Prof. emeritus Manfred Schewe (UCC) and Prof. Susanne Even (Indiana University, USA).
Since Winter 2017, Dragan is co-editor of the Scenario Journal, a double-blind peer-reviewed journal in the area of performative teaching, learning and research.
For a full and up-to-date list of publication, see Dragan's Google Scholar profile.
Biography
Dragan Miladinović is a University Language Teacher at the Department of German, UCC. He joinedthe Department of German in the role of Austrian Academic Exchange Lecturer (OeAD) in August 2015 and has since taught language, literature, and linguistics across all years of the undergraduate programmes. In the MA Translation, he teaches GE6014 translation into German and supervises translation projects in the module LL6035. He has co-supervised/co-examined theses in MA Applied Linguistics and MA Translation. Dragan has also contributed to the teaching of the MA Applied Linguistics, convening the module "Language Teaching and Post-Colonialism" in 2016 and 2017. He is currently the coordinator for First Year Language, the Languages for All-programme, as well as the German language side for the programmes MA in Translation and the HDip in Advanced Languages and Global Communication. He is also in charge of the departmental evening class program and serves as the departmental webmaster.
Dragan completed the BA Translation Studies with working languages German, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and French and the MA German as a Foreign and Second Language at the University of Vienna. He also completed several modules in the MA Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2014, he obtained his master’s degree in German as a Foreign and Second Language with a thesis on the term „Zweitsprache" (second language), analysing the potential discriminatory practice behind it and inherent social consequences for people being labelled by this term. In 2018, he completed the postgraduate course Teaching at Higher Education Institutions Abroad: Further Qualification for University Lecturers at the University of Vienna. Since 2020, he is a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA).
Dragan embarked on his professional teaching career in 2011, when he started teaching German as a Second Language at multiple institutions for further education in Austria as well as tailor-made courses for companies.
In April 2021, he received the Teaching Hero Award by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. In December 2022, he was presented with the UCC President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Aside from teaching, Dragan has held several workshops of further education/professional development for German teachers and presented at conferences internationally. He has also been involved in organising several conferences and workshops, such as the 3rd International Scenario Forum Conference, (dis)Covering Discourses, the GSAI Annual Conference, Austria Days, and more recently the Scenario Forum Online Research Colloquium Series, which has been running since summer 2020, as well as the Scenario Forum Symposium in June 2021. In August 2022, he was co-section head for the section on performative teaching in German language teaching at the International Conference for German Teachers (IDT) in Vienna with over 2,800 delegates.
His research interest lies in critical applied linguistic as well as language teaching pedagogy. He is currently completing a part-time PhD project researching the beliefs of OeAD-lecturers (Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation) about language teaching and specifically about performative approaches, supervised by Dr Barbara Siller (UCC), Prof. emeritus Manfred Schewe (UCC) and Prof. Susanne Even (Indiana University, USA).
Since Winter 2017, Dragan is co-editor of the Scenario Journal, a double-blind peer-reviewed journal in the area of performative teaching, learning and research.
For a full and up-to-date list of publication, see Dragan's Google Scholar profile.
Publications
Edited Books
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2019) | Lernbewegungen inszenieren: Performative Zugänge in der Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturdidaktik Even, Susanne; Miladinovic, Dragan & Schmenk, Barbara (Ed.). (2019) Lernbewegungen inszenieren: Performative Zugänge in der Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturdidaktik Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2019) | 'Intermedialität im performativen Fremdsprachenunterricht' Dragan Miladinovic (2019) 'Intermedialität im performativen Fremdsprachenunterricht' In: Welke, Tina & Faistauer, Renate (eds). Eintauchen in andere Welten. Vielfalt ästhetischer Texte im Kontext Deutsch als Fremdsprache und Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Vienna: Praesens. [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'Prinzipien eines performativen Fremdsprachenunterrichts' Miladinovic, Dragan (2019) 'Prinzipien eines performativen Fremdsprachenunterrichts' In: Lernbewegungen inszenieren: Performative Zugänge in der Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturdidaktik. Festschrift für Manfred Schewe zum 65. Geburtstag. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. [Details] | |
| (2016) | 'Bildungsgerechtigkeit - Der Begriff Zweitsprache als Barriere?' Dragan Miladinovic (2016) 'Bildungsgerechtigkeit - Der Begriff Zweitsprache als Barriere?' In: İnci Dirim, Anke Wegner (eds). Mehrsprachigkeit und Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Erkundungen einer didaktischen Perspektive. Opladen: Budrich Verlag. [DOI] [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2018) | '‚Native Speaker‘ gesucht?! Reflexion eines ‚Deutsch-Muttersprachlers‘ in einem ‚nicht-deutschen Muttersprachler_innenkontext‘' Dragan Miladinovic (2018) '‚Native Speaker‘ gesucht?! Reflexion eines ‚Deutsch-Muttersprachlers‘ in einem ‚nicht-deutschen Muttersprachler_innenkontext‘'. Germanistik In Ireland, 13 [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'Vol. XI, 2/2017' Mandy Collins, Dragan Miladinovic (Guest Editors) (2017) 'Vol. XI, 2/2017'. Scenario - Drama and Theatre In Language Education, XI (2) [Details] |
Articles
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2016) | Warum es wichtig ist, über den Begriff Zweitsprache nachzudenken. In: Erziehung & Unterricht 166. Vol. 9-10/2016, 891-896. Dragan Miladinovic (2016) Warum es wichtig ist, über den Begriff Zweitsprache nachzudenken. In: Erziehung & Unterricht 166. Vol. 9-10/2016, 891-896. Articles [Details] | |
| (2014) | Mein Almanca? Zur Frage der Funktion eines scheinbar dysfunktionalen Deutschkurses. In: ÖDaF-Mitteilungen 1/2014, 56-69. Johannes Köck, Dragan Miladinovic, Magdalena Knappik (2014) Mein Almanca? Zur Frage der Funktion eines scheinbar dysfunktionalen Deutschkurses. In: ÖDaF-Mitteilungen 1/2014, 56-69. Göttingen: Articles [Details] | |
| (2014) | Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Eine Begriffsanalyse. In: ÖDaF-Mitteilungen 2/2014, 137-147. Dragan Miladinovic (2014) Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Eine Begriffsanalyse. In: ÖDaF-Mitteilungen 2/2014, 137-147. Articles [Details] |
Professional Activities
Conference Contributions
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2019) | German Research Day 2019, Dragan Miladinovic (2019) Languages Connect - A neoliberal strategy?. [Oral Presentation], German Research Day 2019, University College Cork . [Details] | |
| (2019) | 7th Scenario Forum Symposium: Principles and Perspectives in Performative Teaching and Learning, Dragan Miladinovic (2019) A Matter of Principles. [Oral Presentation], 7th Scenario Forum Symposium: Principles and Perspectives in Performative Teaching and Learning, UCC . [Details] | |
| (2019) | ÖDaF-Jahrestagung 2019/Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for German as a Foreign/Second Language 2019, Dragan Miladinovic (2019) Workshop: Und eine Prise Ästhetik! Plädoyer für ästhetisches Lehren und Lernen mit performativem Fremdsprachenunterricht. [Oral Presentation], ÖDaF-Jahrestagung 2019/Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for German as a Foreign/Second Language 2019, Vienna . [Details] | |
| (2019) | 20th AULC Annual Conference 2019, Dragan Miladinovic (2019) Against all Odds: Performative Language Teaching in Neoliberal Times. [Oral Presentation], 20th AULC Annual Conference 2019, King's College, London . [Details] | |
| (2018) | IRAAL Annual Conference, Dragan Miladinovic (2018) Improving the language learning environment through performative language teaching and learning. [Oral Presentation], IRAAL Annual Conference, Dublin . [Details] | |
| (2017) | GSAI Annual Conference - Self-reflection, Dragan Miladinovic (2017) ‚Native Speaker‘ gesucht?! Reflexion eines ‚Deutsch-Muttersprachlers‘ in einem ‚nicht-deutschen Muttersprachler_innenkontext‘. [Oral Presentation], GSAI Annual Conference - Self-reflection, UCC . [Details] | |
| (2014) | ÖDaF-Jahrestagung 2014: Ressourcen, Dragan Miladinovic (2014) Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Eine Begriffsanalyse. [Oral Presentation], ÖDaF-Jahrestagung 2014: Ressourcen, Vienna . [Details] |
Languages
| Language | Reading | Writing | Speaking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| German | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
| Serbian | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
| Montenegrian | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
| Croatian | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
| Bosnian | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
| French | Functional | Functional | Functional |
Honours and Awards
| Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Performance Scholarship | University of Vienna | |
| 2013 | Top-Scholarship Lower Austria (NÖ-Topstipendium) | Government of Lower Austria | |
| 2013 | Performance Scholarship | University of Vienna | |
| 2012 | Performance Scholarship | University of Vienna |
Journal Activities
| Journal | Role | To / From | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scenario - Drama And Theatre In Language Education | Member of Editorial Board | - | |
| Scenario - Drama And Theatre In Language Education | Guest Editor | - |
Contact details
- Dragan Miladinovic
College Language Teacher - dragan.miladinovic@ucc.ie
- 021 490 2582
- www.twitter.com/i_am_dragan