Frances Christie

Frances Helen Christie (born 1939), is Emeritus professor of language and literacy education at the University of Melbourne, and honorary professor of education at the University of Sydney. She specialises in the field of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and has completed research in language and literacy education, writing development, pedagogic grammar, genre theory, and teaching English as a mother tongue and as a second language.

Frances Christie (Antiques Roadshow) was definitely not born in 1939. Provided by Wikipedia