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Personal Profile For Dr Jonathan Neale
Senior Lecturer: Creative Studies. School of Humanities and Cultural Industries.
BSc. Social Anthropology [London School of Economics], MA Labour History [University of Warwick], PhD Social History [University of Warwick].
Personal Statement:
Professional Qualifications:
Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:
Writers Guild of Great Britain:
Member of books committee, 1983-85 and 2001-2002.
Member of the theatre committee, 1985-87.
Teaching Specialism:
Narrative nonfiction, novel, writing for young people, scriptwriting, globalisation and writing, writing on the environment.
My two novels and several plays for young people contribute to my work on the MA in Writing for Young People. My several recent nonfiction books contribute to my teaching of the narrative nonfiction modules on the MA in Creative Writing and the undergraduate courses. My experience in theatre writing informs my teaching of undergraduate theatre and performance writing, and of theatre writing and dramatic structure on the MA in scriptwriting.
I am also first supervisor for two PhD students writing historical novels. Here my own historical novel, Mutineers, and my nonfiction history books are both helpful.
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
BOOKS
Editor, book length report on climate jobs, for Campaign against Climate Change, PCS, CWU, TSSA and UCU unions, forthcoming summer 2010.
(Writing and the Environment.)
Editor, One Million Climate Jobs Now, for the Campaign against Climate Change and four unions, 2010. To download a copy go to www.campaigncc.org and click on green jobs.(Writing and the Environment).
Stop Global Warming - Change the World, Bookmarks, London, 2008.
Turkish translation 2010.
Korean translation 2010.
Russian translation 2010.
(Writing and the Environment).
Himalaya, a novel for young people, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004.
French translation, Himalaya, Nathan, 2006. (Writing for Young People).
What's Wrong with America?, Vision, London and New York, 2004.
Korean translation, 2006.
The American War: Vietnam, 1960-1975, Bookmarks, London, 2001.
Second edition: A People's History of the Vietnam War, The New Press, New York, 2003.
US paperback 2004.
Spanish translation, 2003.
German translation, 2004.
Korean translation, 2004.
Turkish translation, 2004.
Greek translation 2005.
Italian translation 2008.
Lost at Sea, a novel for young people, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001.
French translation, Perdu en Mer, Nathan, 2003.
Paperback, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004. (Writing for Young People).
Tigers of the Snow, a history of Sherpa climbers, St. Martin's, New York, 2002.
Also Little Brown UK, London, 2002.
UK paperback, Abacus, 2003.
German translation, 2003.
Dutch translation, 2003.
Italian translation, 2004.
You are G8, We are 6 Billion, about the protests in Genoa, Vision Paperbacks, London, 2002, and New York, 2003.
Mutineers, a novel, Redwords, London, 1998. (Contemporary Writing)
The Laughter of Heroes, a novel, Serpents Tail, London and New York, 1993.
German translation, 1994. (Contemporary Writing)
The Cutlass and the Lash: Mutiny and Discipline in Nelson's Navy, Pluto Press, London, 1985.
Memoirs of a Callous Picket: Working for the NHS, Pluto Press, London, 1983.
PLAYS (All Contemporary Writing)
The Search for the Sun, play for primary schools based on a Pemon myth from Venezuela, Epping Forest Arts, 1997. (Writing for YP)
Oedipus Needs Help, the Greek king and his therapist, Diorama Theatre, London, 1996.
Frogspell, a musical a princess sexually obsessed with frogs, Epping Forest Arts, 1991. (Writing for YP)
The White Mountain, a musical based on a Tibetan harvest play, Harlow Theatre Van, 1989. (Writing for YP)
The White Mountain, based on a Tibetan harvest play, Harlow Theatre Van, 1989. (Writing for YP)
Henry Mayhew's London, BBC Schools Radio, 1988. (Writing for YP)
The Merrie Englande Murders, Robin Hood in a theme park, Perspectives Theatre Company, Mansfield, 1988.
The Surprising Adventures of Mary Anne Talbot, a girl who runs away to join the pirates, Harlow Theatre Van, 1987. (Writing for YP)
Storyteller, theatre in education about the disabled poet Homer and his controlling mother, No Kidding Theatre Company, London, 1988. (Writing for YP)
Pig 311, theatre in education based on the true story of the only pig to survive the first hydrogen bomb test on Bikini atoll, Harlow Theatre Van, 1986. (Writing for YP)
Fight Like Tigers, a one-woman show, Crown and Woolpack, London, 1986 and Glasgow Mayfest, 1987.
Himalaya, 90 minute radio play about a mountaineering expedition, BBC Radio 4, 1985.
RECENT ARTICLES
"The Influence of 1797 on the mutiny on the Nereide" in Anne Coats and Philip Macdougall, (Eds). The 1797 Naval Mutines, Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, forthcoming 2010.
"Climate Politics after Copenhagen", International Socialism 126, 2010.
"Ranting and Silence: the contradictions of writing for activists and academics", in Heidi Armbruster and Anna Laerke, editors, Taking Sides, Berghahn, Oxford, 2008.
"Afghanistan: lo que nos no contaron", in Luke Stobart, editor, Resistencias de la Guerra Global, Ediciones de la Tempestad, Barcelona, 2003.
"Afghanistan", in Farah Reza, editor, Anti-Imperialism, Bookmarks, 2003.
Current Scholarship:
Give details of conferences at which you have:
a. been an invited speaker (state if plenary)
Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School, Piran, Slovenia, 2002, in a seminar on "Muslims in Europe after 9/11".
Mountaineering Literature Conference, University of Leeds, 2002, plenary speaker on "The history of Sherpa climbers".
Inaugural conference, Egyptian Anti-globalisation Group, Cairo, 2002, plenary speaker with Samir Amin.
European Social Forum, Florence, 2002, speaking in a seminar on "Life after capitalism" along with George Monbiot, and a seminar on "Theory of alterglobalization".
World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003, speaking in a seminar on "Cultural alternatives", and one on "Trade unionism and social movements".
European Social Forum, Paris, November, 2003, speaking in a seminar on "Life after capitalism" with Walden Bello.
World Social Forum, Mumbai, India, 2004, speaking in a seminar on "Alternatives".
European Social Forum, London, 2004, speaking in a seminar on "Recent American politics" and another seminar on "Alternatives to capitalism" with Susan George.
World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2005, speaking in a seminar on "Alternative energy", one on "The politics of climate change", and one on "The political economy of the USA".
Oxford Brookes University and Centre for the Environment at Oxford University, joint conference, 2006, on "Environmental Change and Social Change", plenary speaker with George Monbiot.
European Social Forum, Athens, 2006, seminar on "War and climate change" and seminar on "Climate change and social justice".
Conference on climate change, New York, 2006, hosted by Climate Crisis Coalition, plenary speaker.
Plenary speaker on climate change at the Dutch Social Forum, Amsterdam, 2007.
Plenary speaker, conference on water aroganised by Heinrich Boll Foundation, Istanbul, 2008.
European Social Forum, Malmo, 2008, seminar on "Climate Change and Employment".
Education International meeting for OECD education union leaders, Are, Sweden, keynote speaker on education and climate change, 2008.
Left Forum conference, Pace University, New York, seminar paper on climate change.
Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, London, seminar paper on climate change and economic crisis, 2009.
Education Union, Norway, triennial congress, keynote speaker on education and climate change, Lillehammer, Norway, 2009.
Klimaforum, Copenhagen, 2009, seminar on "Climate Change and Green Jobs".
Conference on Climate Change, Work and Energy in Graz, Austria, seminar paper on climate and growth, 2010.
World People's Conference on Climate Change, Cochabamaba, Bolivia, seminar on climate and green jobs, 2010.
Invited to give keynote paper at Praxis conference on Economics and Environment, Moscow, 2010.
Invited to give paper at International Marx Congress, University of Paris, 2010.
b. organised
One of the two British delegates to the international committee that organised the program for the European Social Forum in Florence in November, 2002, and again for Paris, November, 2003.
One of the three people in charge of organising the programme for the European Social Forum in London, October 2004.
Sole organizer of conference on Globalisation and Writing at Bath Spa University, 31 March to 2 April, with 60 scholars coming to give papers.
External Examiners:
External examiner, MA in Narrative Nonfiction, City University, 2008-.
Other External Roles:
In 2005 my book Tigers of the Snow won me the ITAS Carte di Argento, the second prize in the literary competition for the best book published in Italian on mountaineering, the mountain environment, or mountain people.
Since 2001 I have been interviewed by and appeared on:
NBC Nightly News, New York
Air America, syndicated radio across USA
Sky News
Newsnight, BBC2
BBC World Service radio
BBC World 24 television
Radio 5 Alive
CNN Turk, Istanbul
And was the main person interviewed and used for linking narration of the video Genova Libera, directed by John Sinha, London, 2001.
Acted the part of Karl Marx in the European premiere of Howard Zinn's one man play, Marx in Soho, Institute of Education, London, 1999.
International secretary, Campaign against Climate Change, 2005-2006; national secretary Feb 2006 to date.
Part of the AHRC collaborative research training for supervising creative writing PhDs with Portsmouth University.
Recent Professional Updating:
Last Updated: 03 May 2010.
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