Anne Surma

Biography

Anne Surma is an associate professor in the English and Creative Arts program. She teach undergraduate students in literary studies and professional writing, and supervise several postgraduate students working on writing and literary topics.She has also worked in private industry as an editor and writer, and as a workshop facilitator and consultant, advising on communication strategy and practice. Herresearch interests include critical cosmopolitan orientations to communicating and writing; public communication as ethical discourse and creative practice; writing corporate responsibility; and discursive approaches to dominant and marginalised narratives in public and organisational stories. she has published chapters and refereed journal articles from her work, and her first monograph, Public and professional writing: ethics, imagination and rhetoric, was published by Palgrave in 2005. My second monograph, Imagining the cosmopolitan in public and professional writing, was published in 2013, again by Palgrave. An editorial board member of international journals, including TEXT, Journal of Communication Management and Public Relations Inquiry,she also hold the honorary title of Distinguished Editor, conferred by the national organisation, the Institute of Professional Editors.

Research Interest

Her research interests include critical cosmopolitan orientations to communicating and writing; public communication as ethical discourse and creative practice; writing corporate responsibility; and discursive approaches to dominant and marginalised narratives in public and organisational stories.