Associate teaching staff

As a freelance editor of series fiction, she has worked on twelve different series and edited nearly 100 books. She has given writing workshops in the US, UK and Europe. She co-founded Undiscovered Voices – which has launched the writing careers of thirty-two authors, who now have written more than 120 children’s books. Sara was born and raised in Washington, Indiana. She graduated from Indiana University with degrees in journalism and psychology, and later she earned a master’s degree in creative and life writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She lives in London.

Academic qualifications

• Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences, Bloomington, IN
• A. in Journalism and Psychology, May 1990, Grade Point Average 3.48 (on 4.0 scale)
• New School University, New York, NY
• Progress toward master’s degree in Media Studies (12 credit hours), August 2002 to August 2003, Grade Point Average 3.9 (on 4.0 scale)
• Goldsmiths College, University of London, Creative and Life Writing MA program, London
• September 2004 to September 2006, Assessment Mark 71 (distinction).

Teaching

Sara served as the tutor for the University of Winchester’s master’s in writing for children. She taught the ‘Writing for the Early Years’ course in 2014 and 2015. She has given creative writing workshos in the US, UK and Europe. She visits nearly fifty primary and secondary schools a year, giving assemblies and workshops on writing.

Marta is a lecturer of Caribbean literature at Goldsmiths University where she teaches on Caribbean Women Writing. She has previously taught and been involved in research projects at the University of East Anglia, the University of Reading, Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus) and the University of Miami. She is a former Fulbright and Leverhulme Fellow and has published in leading journals in the field of Caribbean and postcolonial studies, including Anthurium, Callaloo, Small Axe and sx salon. She has published a chapter on Caribbean literature and visual culture in the third volume of Caribbean Literature In Transition and a monograph titled Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture, part of Palgrave’s Caribbean New Studies series.

Marta is also special projects editor at the journal Caribbean InTransit, and the Caribbean area specialist editor at Postcolonial Text.

Academic qualifications

• PhD in Caribbean Literature and Culture, University of Miami, 2013
• MA in Postcolonial Literatures, Complutense University, Madrid, 2007
• BA in English Philology, Complutense University, Madrid, 2004

Teaching

Marta has been teaching for over ten years in the US, Spain and the UK. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate modules and workshops on Caribbean literatures and cultures, postcolonial literatures, literary archival studies, and research methods, among other subjects.

Research interests

Marta’s research focuses on forms of memory that challenge official histories and processes on national and collective amnesia and historical erasure. She has also carried out research into the shared influence between literature and art, and creative and recordkeeping processes of authors in regard to their literary papers.

Academic Qualifications 

• BA Hons, Drama & English at Bristol University
• MA Creative & Life Writing, Goldsmiths
• PG Certificate in the Managment of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Goldsmiths (Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy)
• TEFL

Teaching

Giovanna teaches the Goldsmiths short course: How to Write Short Stories that Resonate

She has also taught on the Critical Contexts seminar for Creative Writing MA students.

She teaches a range of courses for adults in north London for Haringey Literature Live including short fiction, memoir and feature writing.

Research interests 

Giovanna's PhD critical focus (supervisor: Dr Carole Sweeney) is on disgust, masochism and confinement in the early novels of Elena Ferrante: Troubled Love, The Days of Abandonment and The Lost Daughter.

Her debut pamphlet, smithereens, was published in 2010 by tall lighthouse press and her 2016 You’ve Got to Wait Till the Man You Trust Says Go was the winner of the Goldsmiths’ Writer Centre’s inaugural Poetry Pamphlet award. She has held residencies at The Reach Climbing Centre in Woolwich and the 999 Club homeless centre.

Academic qualifications

• Nov 2015 - Awarded PhD in Creative Writing, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London. Title: On My Mind: The Shared Vision of Collaboration ‘In Absentia’
• Sept 2009 - MA with Distinction in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
• 1989 - BA (Phi Beta Kappa) in Japanese and Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Teaching

Jocelyn Page was awarded the PGCE in Management and Teaching in Higher Education from Goldsmiths College in 2014. She has taught undergraduate courses, including Engaging Poetry and Introduction to Poetry, at Goldsmiths since September 2011. Jocelyn has also worked at University of London’s International Programmes on the Virtual Learning Environment.

In addition, in 2016, Jocelyn began working in the community as a facilitator at the 999 Club homeless shelter and as the Writer in Residence at The Reach Climbing Centre in Woolwich.

Between November 2009 and September 2012, Jocelyn Page worked as a Creative Writing tutor at Spread the Word, London, where she facilitated poetry workshops for adult and youth participants at libraries, primary and secondary schools in Greenwich, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets and Lewes. She also led teacher-training projects and produced anthologies and performances for students.

Professional activities

Between 1994 and 2001, Jocelyn managed international English language institutes in Washington, DC and London, In these roles, she directed all operations, including hiring and training of teaching staff, curriculum and educational development. She organised daily educational activities, managed administrative and teaching personnel and supervised marketing and budgeting of large English Language schools.

Jocelyn Page has acted as the Associate Teaching Staff representative for the English and Comparative Literature Department and the Post Graduate Student representative on both the Research Committee for ECL.

Featured work

• You’ve Got To Wait Till the Man You Trust Says Go (2015)
• Translation as Collaboration, Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin (2015)
• Mapping Chaos, University of Plymouth (2012)
• Smithereens (2010)
• Additional poetry published: Ambit, Magma, The Moth, Orbis, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Parnassus, Poetry Review, Poetry Salzburg, Rialto, The South Carolina Review, The Spectator.

Grants and awards

• Goldsmiths’ Writers’ Centre Poetry Pamphlet Competition winner (May 2015)
• Pighog Press/Poetry School Pamphlet competition shortlist (March 2013)
• Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit Fellowship in Teaching (January 2013)
• Poetry Trust Advanced Seminar selected participant (March 2011)
• The New Writer Magazine, Highly commended, Poetry collection category (2008)

See Jocelyn's research outputs on Goldsmiths Research Online.

Her current research takes as its starting point the comparison that Walter Benjamin makes between Surrealism and a secret society and its bearing on his notion of "profane illumination". Other interests include the Intellectual History of the Enlightenment, Kant's theory of aesthetics and the notion of 'objectless' horror in art and literature. 

Academic qualifications

• MFA (Columbia University – NYC, USA)
• BA (Bennington College, Vermont, USA)

Teaching

• MA Poetry Specialist Workshop – Leader
• BA Poetry  Module (Level 2)  - Leader
• BA – tutorials/consultations, mid-term grading, reports, portfolio supervision
• Development & research new writing component of BA English degree course (craft, resources, references, poems, critical texts)
• Occasional: convening; grading BA portfolios

Research interests

Comparative UK/USA/Ireland poetry, fiction & non-fiction; contemporary and women’s poetry; cultural journalism - essays, reportage, travel, memoir, belles lettres, etc.;  form & craft; 19^th century British & American novel and short story  (and 18^th century and contemporary); libretti & lyrics

See eva's research outputs on Goldsmiths Research Online.