Karen Le Rossignol

Karen is a Senior Lecturer in professional and creative writing. She has developed and researched digital storyworlds/storytelling and has won awards for her work in this area. Karen has expertise in educational and digital publishing, professional writing and editing, with 15 published texts. Work-integrated learning is both a research area and teaching/learning approach that is central to her work. Her recent related work includes Freelancing in the Creative Industries (OUP), and a book chapter on Transformative eLearning and Portfolio Careers (IGI Global) for creative artists.

Karen’s current focus in research explores community co-creation (digital Regional Arts Park).

d-RAP provides a growing creative ecosystem of digital stories from Central Victorian artists…

Karen has had a range of leadership roles in learning enhancement and course coordination, and over many years has chaired the Verandah Industry Panel, overseeing the yearly undergraduate editorial team producing the journal Verandah under the Verandah imprint.

Her supervision interests include: creating digital narrative and scripting for games; memoir/lyric/personal essays and creative nonfiction; digital anthologies and editing roles and responsibilities; extended creative writing research studio and projects; and industry linkages incorporating creative projects. She has supervised projects across disciplines and genres.

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/digitalstoryworlds/