Dr Vesna Goldsworthy
| Position: | Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing |
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| School: | School Of Humanities |
| Email: | V.Goldsworthy@kingston.ac.uk |
| Extension: | 62420 |
| Location: | Room Pr-H33, Penrhyn Road |
Educational and professional qualifications
| 1996 | PhD English Literature , University of London |
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| 1992 | MA (dist) Modern English Literature , University of London |
| 1985 | BA Comparative Literature , University of Belgrade |
Professional experience (post-1990)
| 2010-present | Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing, Kingston University |
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| 2006-2010 | Reader in English Literature and Creative Writing, Kingston University |
| 2005-present | Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University College London |
| 2004 -present | Director, Centre for Suburban Studies, Kingston University |
| 2001-2006 | Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Kingston University |
| 2000-2001 | Senior Research Fellow in English, Kingston University |
| 1996-2001 | Visiting Professor, Bucknell University, PA; St Lawrence University NY |
| 1992-2000 | Producer, BBC World Service |
| 1990-1992 | Editor, Editions Alecto, London |
| 1987-1990 | Editor, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd; Cambridge |
Professional activity
External examiner
• 2005-2009: University of Birmingham, BA English Language and Literature in Education
PhD/M Res
• Strathclyde University
• University College London
• Trinity College Dublin,
• University of East Anglia
Judge, Literary Prizes:
• Booktrust New Writing Ventures 2007, funded by Arts Council England
• IMPAC Dublin Fiction Prize 2009
Project Referee, Publishers’ Reader, Editorial Advice
• AHRC; MHRA; Leverhulme; Dutch Council for the Humanities; Qatar National Research Fund
• Manuscript and book translation evaluation: John Murray; Northcote; Oxford University Press, Portobello Publishers, Dalkey Archive Press (Illinois); Pushkin Press and many others.
• Academic articles refereed for: European History Quarterly, Women: A Cultural Review; Studies in Travel Writing, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and many others.
Membership of Advisory Bodies
• British Council (UK--South-East Europe Forum) 1992-1995;
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting (London) 1992-1996;
• Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans (Editorial Board, 2001-2006)
• External Experts Advisory Panel, Centre for Balkan Studies, Goldsmiths College
• New Europe College, Bucharest
Membership of Professional Organisations:
• Modern Languages Association of North America (since 1996)
• Society of Authors (since 1998)
• English PEN (since 2006)
Consultancies:
UK: British Council; Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; BBC Broadcasting; BBC Audience Research; BBC4; Sky Television; TeamSpirit PR; Independent Television News; Cactus Television; The Times Newspapers; Institute for War and Peace Reporting;
Europe: Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz (Austria), Centre for Advanced Study, University of Sofia; New Europe College Institute for Journalism (Prague); Norwegian PEN.
Research outputs
Article
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2011) The present of intimacy: my very public private life. Biography, 34(1), pp. 1-10. ISSN (print) 0162-4962
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2005) Book review of: "A form foredoomed to looseness": Henry James's preoccupation with the gender of fiction by Cecile Mazzucco-Than. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 48(4), pp. 489-492. ISSN (print) 0013-8339
Dixon, Paul and Goldsworthy, Vesna (2004) Embracing suburbia. Planning in London, 50, pp. 33-34. ISSN (print) 1366-9672
Goldsworthy, Vesna (1999) The last stop on the Orient Express: the Balkans and the politics of British in(ter)vention. Balkanologie: Revue d’études pluridisciplinaires, 3(2), pp. 107-115. ISSN (print) 1279-7952
Goldsworthy, Vesna (1997) Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Rebecca West's journey through the Balkans. Women: A Cultural Review, 8(1), pp. 1-11. ISSN (print) 0957-4042
Goldsworthy, Vesna (1997) Tennyson and Montenegro. The Tennyson Research Bulletin, 7(1), pp. 7-17. ISSN (print) 0082-2841
Book
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2011) The angel of Salonika. London, U.K. : Salt Publishing. 54p. ISBN 9781844718788
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2007) Czarnobylskie truskawki. Warsaw, Poland : Czarne. 272p. ISBN 9788375360080
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2006) Chernobyl strawberries: a memoir. Paperback ed. London, U.K. : Atlantic Books. 311p. ISBN 1843544156
Goldsworthy, Vesna, ed. (2006) Writing worlds 1: The Norwich exchanges. Norwich, UK : Pen and Inc Press. 176p. ISBN 1902913264
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2005) Chernobyl strawberries: a memoir. London, U.K. : Atlantic Books. 290p. ISBN 1843544148
Goldsworthy, Vesna and Mandelkow, Miriam [Translator] (2005) Heimweh nach Nirgendwo: Eine Lebensgeschichte. Germany : Deuticke im Zsolnay Verlag. 224p. ISBN 3552060022
Goldsworthy, Vesna (1998) Inventing Ruritania: the imperialism of the imagination. London, U.K. : Yale University Press. 254p. ISBN 9780300073126
Book Section
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2013) Yugoslavia: a defeated argument? In: Gorup, Radmila, (ed.) After Yugoslavia: the cultural spaces of a vanished land. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804784023 (In Press)
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2013) An introduction to the new edition: Ruritania returns. In: Goldsworthy, Vesna, (ed.) Inventing Ruritania: the imperialism of the imagination. Revised and updated edition. London, U.K. : Columbia University Press. pp. ix-xxiv. ISBN 9780231704236
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2006) The Balkans in nineteenth-century British travel writing. In: Youngs, Tim, (ed.) Travel writing in the nineteenth century: filling the blank spaces. London, UK : Anthem Press. pp. 19-35. (Anthem nineteenth century studies) ISBN 1843312182
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2006) The trouble with belonging: an afterword. In: Goldsworthy, Vesna, (ed.) Writing worlds 1: The Norwich exchanges. Norwich, UK : Pen and Inc Press. pp. 160-165. ISBN 1902913264
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2004) The love that dares not speak its name: Englishness and suburbia. In: Rogers, David and McLeod, John, (eds.) The revision of Englishness. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 95-106. ISBN 9780719069727
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2001) Yugoslavia and former Yugoslav territories. In: Jolly, Margaretta, (ed.) Encyclopedia of Life Writing. London, UK : Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 976-977. ISBN 157958232x
Goldsworthy, Vesna (2000) Literature: Eastern Europe. In: Kramarae, Cheris and Spender, Dale, (eds.) Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge. London, UK : Routledge. pp. 1261-1264. ISBN 0415920914
