Sandra Mara Corazza: a methodosophical dream. An interview with Paola Zordan

Abstract

Draco dormiens nunquam tittilandus.Julio Groppa Aquino -Dear Paola, Cristiano and me clearly understand that this interview, with the purpose of resuming Sandra Mara Corazza's legacy, could not have been done with anyone else. The first thing that we would like to know concerns your initial encounter with Sandra. Paola Zordan -My encounter with Sandra was through a graduate course. As a MSc candidate, I had already seen Sandra in the audience of events, always questioning, making comments to those who were presenting something in a public circumstance. Somebody told me: "this is Sandra Corazza; she is always like this, picky". I was studying monsters in my PhD and Susana Rangel, a friend who was also a professor at FACED (School of Education), showed me the title: Para uma filosofia do inferno na Educação: estranhos, grotescos, bárbaros, selvagens, baixos, infames, loucos, libertinos, bestas, filhas de Lilith-Lua Negra, bruxas, fantasmas, vampiros, demônios, o Eu, e outros personagens afins [For a philosophy of hell in Education: weirds, grotesques, barbarians, savages, lowlifes, infamous, crazy, libertines, beasts, children of Black Moon-Lilith, witches, ghosts, vampires, demons, the Self, and other akin characters]. I couldn't help taking that course, it had my face on it! It was 2001, the second year of my PhD, and I was almost giving birth to my daughter Ana Clara, hardly one month after my mother had died after two very difficult years, nine hospitalizations for cancer. The course started one week before Ana was born; it was a 2-credit seminar, the room was the same where DIF 1 [artistagens, fabulações, variações research group] is located now on the 8 th floor. I was the first one to arrive, with a huge belly; I always wore high heels to avoid pain in my feet. For many years Sandra spoke of my belly and my red shoes, with a Carmen Miranda-like platform that left me about 16 cm taller. She was crazy for the shoes, for the belly. She loved to know that it would be a girl and that I was the Rosa Fischer's advisee who was studying the monsters. I said: "the baby will