Francesca Placanica

Francesca Placanica is Assistant Professor in Music in the Department of Music at Maynooth University, where she is also at the head of the Performance Strand. A singer and artist-researcher with international experience in opera and music theatre, she has recently terminated a MSCA Individual Fellowship at the University of Huddersfield, where she was the project-leader of the practice-based project NePraMusT (Networks of Practice in New Music Theatre). Between 2015 and 2017, she was the project-leader of the artistic research project ‘En-Gendering Monodrama: Artistic Research and Experimental Production’ completed at Maynooth University, one of the few artistic research projects awarded a two-year IRC postdoctoral fellowship.