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Susan Greenberg

Senior Lecturer (Creative Writing)

Telephone : +44 020 8392 3057
Email : S.Greenberg@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : English and Creative Writing
Office location : Fincham 103

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About

Susan has worked for 25 years as a writer and editor for newspapers, magazines and the web. After stints at The Times and Reuters, she became Czech and Slovak correspondent for The Guardian and a magazine and web consultant, before taking up teaching and research. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a founding member of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies, which held its Fifth International Conference at Roehampton in May 2010.

Position

BA Year 3 Tutor and member of Centre for Research in Creative and Professional Writing (ReWrite), steering committee
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BA module convenor for:

  • Writing Journalism and Nonfiction&
  • Telling True Stories
  • Publishing for the Internet

MA module convenor for:

  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Publishing and Editing

Office hours

During teaching weeks: Thursdays 12.00 to 13.30
Or by appointment

Research Interests

  • Editing in the creation of meaning
  • Theory and practice in journalism education and creative writing
  • Literary journalism and reportage
  • Professionalism and amateurism in new media
  • New media writing
  • Poetics of nonfiction

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Advisory board, International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS)
  • The Association of Journalism Educators (AJE)
  • Women in Journalism (WIJ)

Consultancies Undertaken

  • Director Oddfish communications consultancy
  • Website content strategy for Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health
  • Editorial packages for EU TACIS, National Consumer Council
  • Series editor for Camden Press "Mindfield" book series
  • Managing editor, The Henley Centre consumer consultancy

Teaching Interests

  • Writing Journalism and Nonfiction
  • Telling True Stories
  • Publishing for the Internet
  • Creative Nonfiction (MA)
  • Publishing and Editing (MA)

Publications

"Personal experience, turned outward" in Free Associations No 62, September 2011
"When the editor disappears, does editing disappear?", Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Volume 16, Issue 1, February 2010
"Theory and Practice in Journalism Education", Journal of Media Practice, Volume 8, Issues 2/3, November 2007
"Slow Journalism", Prospect Feb 2007
Therapy on the couch ed. (1999)
Hate thy neighbour: the dividing lines of race and culture ed. (1998)
"The funeral of Imre Nagy" in A l'est: la memoire retrouvé (1990)
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