Alice Mitchell 1942 – 2010
- Creative linguist, learning media developer and pedagogue,
- Head of Language Centre at Anglia Polytechnic University
- Unique Ultranaut
- Dedicated wife to Colin Babbs
- Informal, enthusiastic tutor to my son
- Personal friend
- Favourite remembered saying: “half the time in English we mispronounce French and the other half, German”
Alice’s work in the middle nineties to develop language learning multimedia material and virtual spaces for language learning was a decade ahead of its time – Alice was an unusual mix of imaginative ideas and perfection in detail who understood ‘delight’ and made every attempt to foreground affect in her designs. Sorely missed doesn’t really say it.
Elle ne s’en ira pas, elle ne redescendra pas d’un ciel, elle n’accomplira pas la rédemption des colères de femmes et des gaîtés des hommes et de tout ce péché: car c’est fait, lui étant, et étant aimée.
(from Rimbaud)