Gina Wisker is Head of Learning and Teaching and Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature, University of Brighton, UK. She teaches MA and BA in literature and supervises postgraduate students. Gina is an Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning development consultant. She has lived in Singapore, Cyprus and Malta and now runs workshops worldwide – in the Far East, Australasia, the USA, Sweden and South Africa – particularly on supervising postgraduates and writing for academic publication. She is the author of a number of books, chapters and articles including
Getting Published,
The Good Supervisor,
Postgraduate Research Handbook and
Horror Fiction. She also writes and publishes poetry and short stories, and is co-editor of SEDA journal
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, online horror journal
Dissections and poetry e-zine
Spokes. Gina peer reviews for several literature and higher education journals andis on the advisory board for
FEMSPEC and the
Atlantic Literary Review. She lives in Cambridge with her two sons and small dog.