First Name
Jennifer
Last Name
Francis
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Email
mummyjennifer@icloud.com
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Twitter Handle
redsunshade@sunshadered
About
Free-lance .
Voicemeans
Director and hands- on Facilitator- Speaking in Public and Reading for Performance -
Near Native Speaker of Italian.
Lecturer in Italian & English Literature & Language.
Lived & worked in Italy for over twenty years
Broadcast Live for the RAI . ( Radio e televisione italiana)
FAO (Food & Agricultural Org )Translator: Simultaneous & written -for over five years.
Dialogue Coach - Film. Translator Libretti Opera , Plays e.g. (Dario Fo and Franca Rame )Screenplays and Conference work including Women’s Health . I collaborated on the Italian Translation of _0ur Bodies, Ourselves_ (Boston Women’s Health Collective )when first published in Italian -not credited .
Interests:
Politics and Social Mores in Literature.
Race , Civil Rights,
Intersectionality,
Ageism
Parenting
Homeschooling.
Collector Children’s Literature
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Research into
The embedded perceptions of snobbery ( n.b .both reverse and elite) as far as notions of Class & Social Status are concerned. alongside the soi-disant ‘construction of ‘Appropriateness’ of materia within School Curricula.
Importantly where decision making concerning Reading material is concerned . Primary thru’ Senior & the subsequent glass ceilings in both Higher Education and the Workplace this gives rise to across Society.
I am based in the UK atm- but also in Italy & Normandy, France.( not currently- due to travel restrictions of the Pandemic).
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Jennifer ‘a casa’
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Ongoing research:
Dissembling :
An Exploration of the Exponents of Rôles in the Domestic Sphere-
including the rôle of servant protagonists within /across European Artistic Communities of the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Western world & the Representation of Celebrity Culture .past and present and their covert /overt ‘entourages’.
How these are figured in the Public Space and in the imagination.
Dissembling :
An Exploration of the Exponents of Rôles in the Domestic Sphere-
including the rôle of servant protagonists within /across European Artistic Communities of the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Western world & the Representation of Celebrity Culture .past and present and their covert /overt ‘entourages’.
How these are figured in the Public Space and in the imagination.
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