Jeanne Frances CLEGG

I have selected and organised two major Ruskin exhibitions, the Arts Council’s “John Ruskin” (Sheffield, Oxford and Kendal 1983), for which I also wrote the catalogue, and, together with Paul Tucker for the Guild of St George, “Ruskin and Tuscany” (London and Lucca 1993). In connection with the latter I and Paul Tucker organized an international 3 day seminar in collaboration with the University of Pisa, the Scuola Normale and the Fondazione Ragghianti.

In May 2004 I and professor Angelo Turco organised an interdisciplinary conference on discourses of war, “Dire la Guerra e/è farla”, which was financed by the University of l’Aquila.

I participate actively in the conferences of the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA) and the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), and the Italain Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies I have held two Research Fellowships at the William Andrews Clark Library and Center for 17^th and 18^th Century Studies Los Angeles.

I was a member of a research group whose project “La Guerra contro i teatri” was financed by the Italian government in 2004-6; the project concluded with an international conference. While at the University of Pisa I served on various Faculty committees, coordinated literature teaching in the English Department, represented the humanities in the Senate of the University and was member of the Senate Standing Committee for Teaching. I was also a member of the Collegio dei docenti of the doctoral programme in English and American Literature. †    

At the University of Aquila I served on various committees (Teaching, Computing, Faculty Budget, Library); from 2000 to 2006 I coordinated language teaching for the Faculty, and from 2003 to 2008 was Chairman of the degree in Mediazione Linguistica.  I organized a FSE funded post-graduate M.A. in technical translation and writing and was a member of the Collegio dei docenti of the doctoral programme in Literary Genres.

At Ca’ Foscari I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in English literature and culture, specializing in the 18^th century phase of Early modernity. I am a member of the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies and currently serve on the Giunta with special responsibility for Cultural activities.   

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