Ms Kate Feld
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in Journalism
Biography
Kate Feld is a writer, editor and journalism lecturer based in Manchester. A native of Vermont, USA. she began her journalism career in 1999 as a newspaper reporter in New England. She received a BA (hon) in Great Books from St. John's College, Annapolis. She earned a MS in Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York, where she was a 2003 Lorana Sullivan Fellow for Investigative Reporting.
After working for Associated Press in New York, she emigrated to the UK in 2004. Her varied career in UK journalism has included editing arts magazines, food writing, literary events, cultural criticism and freelancing for publications including The Guardian, Time Out and The Independent and as a researcher for BBC Radio 4. She also developed projects including The Blog North Awards (2006-2015) and The Real Story, an Arts Council-funded journal and event series aimed at developing the form of creative nonfiction in the UK, which ran 2014-2019.
She worked for many years at Manchester Literature Festival and continues to chair author events at festivals, conferences and bookstores. She runs a monthly feminist book discussion group at House of Books and Friends in Manchester.
She currently combines part-time teaching with a continuing freelance career in literary events and her work as a poet and essayist.
Areas of Research
Her debut pamphlet of poetry and photography, Deeryard, was published in 2024 by independent press Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers. Recent publications include a critical essay responding to Andre Breton in Magic Art Redux (Fulgur Press) and a contribution to the anthology The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger Through Creative Expression (Leuven University Press). She has an essay forthcoming in the Irish journal Banshee.
She has worked as a journalism lecturer at Salford since 2014. She is module leader for the undergraduate Feature Writing and Dissertations modules on BA Journalism, and contributes teaching across undergraduate and MA multimedia modules.
She has guest lectured at universities including Manchester School of Art, The Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, Manchester School of Writing at MMU, Edge Hill University and Cumbria University. She has been a visiting writer at Lancaster University.
She completed a postgraduate certificate in academic practice in 2019 and is a member of the Higher Education Association.
Qualifications
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Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
2019 - 2019 -
MS in Journalism
2002 - 2003 -
BA in Great Books/Liberal Studies
1991 - 1995