Sue Joseph (PhD) has been a journalist for more than forty years, completing a cadetship at ACP before travelling to Europe in the early '80s. Based in London, she was stringer for several Fleet Street newspapers, national radio and television stations. She also worked on many regional publications in London, and freelanced to publications in Australia, including The Bulletin. Her last post in London was as Managing Editor of two London weekly magazines.
Whilst in London, she also worked closely with John Pilger to help launch the weekly national Sunday tabloid, News on Sunday. Once launched, she worked as Features Editor as well as writing features and news.
Joseph began working as an academic at the University of Technology Sydney in 1997. As a Senior Lecturer, she taught in journalism and creative writing, particularly creative non-fiction writing. Now as Associate Professor, she holds an Adjunct position at Avondale University College, and is a doctoral supervisor at the University of Sydney, University of technology Sydney and Central Queensland University.
Her research interests are around sexuality, secrets and confession, framed by the media; ethics and trauma narrative; memoir; reflective professional practice; ethical HDR supervision; nonfiction poetry; and Australian creative non-fiction. Her fourth book, Behind the Text: Candid conversations with Australian creative nonfiction writers, was released in 2016. She co-edited two texts on profile writing: Profile Pieces: Journalism and the Human Interest Bias (Routledge 2016) and The Profiling Handbook (Abramis Academic Publishing 2015); and two texts on memoir writing: Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir (Routledge 2018) and Still There: memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss (Routledge 2019). She also co-edited in 2019 Sex and Journalism: Critical, Global Perspectives, (Bite-sized Books). She is Joint Editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics and co-editor of the Palgrave Book series on Literary Journalism.