Janice is Professor of French Linguistics in AEL and Dean of Research in our Faculty.  She took her BA in Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University (St Catharine’s College), where she subsequently took an MPhil in Linguistics, followed by a PhD in French Linguistics under the supervision of Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett.  Janice was appointed to Queen’s in 1989 and was Head of the School of Modern Languages from 2011 to 2016 and Priority Area Leadership Fellow in Modern Languages with the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2017-2021.