Deirdre FERNANDES-DOMINIC

I am presently a French Language translator, interpreter and language trainer as well as a Technical writer and Content writer/reviewer in English with a renowned IT-based MNC in the last 8.5 years. My passions have always resided in Music and Teaching, and it was only a matter of exploring one as a profession while the other would keep my soul alive. The choice became obvious when I pursued my B.A French at Elphinstone College, Mumbai, and M.A French at Bombay University’s Kalina campus. I was going to teach French, and so did my B.Ed through St. Teresa’s Institute of Education, Santa Cruz, before I landed my first job at R.A.Podar College of Commerce and Economics, Matunga, where I taught for 5 years before moving to Bangalore.
In Bangalore I taught both – Junior and Degree college French and Headed the Department of French for 7 of the 8.5 years that I taught at Mount Carmel College Autonomous. As HOD, I curated and initiated an undergraduate course in French, making it the only college in Karnataka to offer a B.A with French as one of the Ancillary subjects. This course ran for 5 batches (until I moved out).
Through the years, I was also a Guest Faculty at Bangalore University for 10 years for the Regular Masters in French program, teaching papers in Translation, Theory of Grammar and Literature (17th through 20th Century).
With a teaching and training experience of 22.5 years, I now head the Trainings Initiative for Foreign Languages in our Language Team, but at the same time writing has been a constant love, explored even more now, with me heading our English Newsletter for my organization’s Language Team across India.

Philippe GUILLIEN

Attaché de Coopération pour le Français Institut Français en Inde, Mumbai

Michel BOIRON