Susan Corbett
Communications Specialist
Office:
Discovery 2, suite 101
Email:
[[sacorbett]]
Phone:
757-221-1388
Duties:
As a Communications Specialist, serves as a writer, both in beat areas on campus and on general assignment, posting stories to the W&M News site. Works with our Media Relations team to pitch faculty as experts to local, regional and national news outlets.
Beats:
Africana Studies, American Studies, Art & Art History, Classical Studies, English, Film & Media Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies, Linguistics, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Modern Languages & Literatures, Music, and Theatre & Performance.
About Susan
My parents emigrated to the United States from Ireland. Growing up we had one car which my mother had use of only on Saturdays. She would drop my sister and me off at the Farmingdale (N.Y.) library while she ran all her errands. Mischief was not yet in our vernacular; we read. Everything. My sister became a professor of English literature. I became a writer.
I worked in TV for a decade before joining the Miami Herald, just in time for Hurricane Andrew, which resulted in a hard-earned Pulitzer Prize for our staff. I moved to Hampton Roads a decade later with three kids, the oldest of whom was five. (Conor, '12). I freelanced as they grew up, working mostly for People magazine and Publishers Weekly. I also wrote four novels, a picture book, the Insider’s Guide to Williamsburg, a bunch of biographies of other authors, and two young reader adaptations of other people’s memoirs (Mariano River, R.A. Dickey.)
To relax, I smash tennis balls. Well, I mean, I try to smash them.
