Susan Greenberg

 

Background

Susan has worked for 25 years as a writer and editor for
newspapers, magazines and the web. After working at The
Times and Reuters, she became Czech and Slovak
correspondent for The Guardian and a magazine and
web consultant, before taking up teaching a few years ago. She
is a founding member of the International Association of
Literary Journalism Studies

Position

Convenor of MA/MRes, Creative and Professional Writing
(until January 2010)

Steering committee member, Centre for Research in Creative
and Professional Writing (ReWrite)

BA module convenor for:
Nonfiction: Feature Writing
Publishing for the Internet

MA module convenor for: Creative Nonfiction and Journalism

Office hours

During teaching weeks: Fridays 1.30pm to 2.30pm
Or by appointment

Teaching

Publishing for the Internet (BA)
Creative Nonfiction and Journalism (MA)
Life Writing 2
Writing Contexts: The Process of Writing
Writing Journalism and Nonfiction

Publications include

• "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

• "Response to John Beebe", Journal of Analytical
Psychology, 2006, 51, 717–718

• Therapy on the couch ed (1999) and 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)

• Rejoice! Media Freedom and the Falklands
(1983)

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)

Research Expertise

• 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

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

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Creative Writing

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Creative & Professional Writing