Curriculum Vitae
I am an art historian who also writes fiction and biography. All my work is informed not only by art, both historical and contemporary, but also by my interest in, and family connections to, France, its people, culture and language. Although I have lived all my adult life ‘within a walk of the sea’, my love of alpine landscapes has taken me on many memorable adventures.
- In 1999 I published, Alpine Beach: a Family Adventure (Robyn Ianssen Productions), an autobiographical account of the ten years I spent in France with my husband and two children. I translated Alpine Beach into French in 2002 as Sydney-en-Chablais: aventure savoyarde d’une famille australienne (Éditions Kusatsu P/L)
- From 2002 to 2005 I lectured in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW: Writing Art & Design; Writing For Different Audiences; and Approaches to Australian Art, in the School of Art History & Theory.
- In 2006 I published Forget Me Not (Seaview Press), a novel linking Australia and France, from World War I to the 1980s.
- From 1993 to 2010 I have published numerous articles, exhibition & book reviews (art & culture) in specialist and general magazines.
- 2012 A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr, Art and Architectural Historian, my biography of Joan Kerr, was published by LhR Press.
- 2013 It Happened Tomorrow, Editions Kusatsu and ebook
- 2019 'Tis the Doing Not the Deed, (ebook)
- 2021 The Heritage You Leave Behind, Editions Kusatsu (pbk & eBook)
- 2024 To Carve Identity, Editions Kusatsu (pbk & eBook)
SUSAN STEGGALL as EDITOR:
2010-15 Editor, ISAA Review
2001-16 Editor, ISAA National Newsletter
2006 Editor (with Introduction), A Way of Happening, Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. (an anthology of prize-winning short stories and poetry)
2016 Editor (with Introduction), Ink 3, Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. (an anthology of prize-winning short stories and poetry)