About
I’m Greta Goetz, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
For over the past two decades, I have taught higher education. My research is concerned with mnemotechnic hermeneutics, postdigital pedagogies, transnational and postdisciplinary dialogue, and networked learning. Postdigital research led me to the joy of digital tools for thought and I now love to tinker, especially with Emacs.
I have a multicultural background, was educated in Hong Kong, Switzerland, France, the United States, and Serbia, and worked my way through a BA, Cum Laude, from Columbia University. I began my career working for various publications in Hong Kong and New York, including TIME magazine.
A sample of my work in Serbian-English translation is the following manuscript available online: Marčetić, A. (2018). After Comparative Literature, Institute for Literature and Art: Belgrade. A compilation of informal blog posts I wrote about running can be found at Orange Mud.
This wiki-like digital garden is where I work out thought that usually gets finished in my more conventionally-published work. It takes after the wiki model I use in my classes – though on the class sites, I experiment with Stieglerian approaches. This personal site is currently dedicated to my best friend who sadly passed away late this summer. I hope to bring his memory forward in all that I do.
Now top
- Writing a book on re-presencing the postdigital trace and two companion textbooks that draw on pattern design learning. I teach two large classes single-handedly (over 300 students) in addition to postgraduate courses. I have just completed two book chapters, still in press. These will be added to the recent works section.
Recent talks top
- (2022). A Pattern Design Approach to the Study of Philology and Culture in a Postdigital Age. Paper delivered on 3 December at a conference on contemporary research in philology, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade University.
- (2022). Represencing the Digital Trace in Networked Learning, Paper delivered on 17 May in the Networked Learning Conference 2022 Symposium, Phenomenology and networked learning: A found chord.
- (2022). Relative harmony, experience, and digtal tools in networked learning (audio recording). Contribution to audio segment of NLC2022 symposium, introduced here.
- (2022). Retracing Digital Freedom As Design Pattern Learning For Life, LibrePlanet2022, reviewed here and here.
- (2021). Emacs as Design Pattern Learning, EmacsConf2021.
Recent papers and work top
- (2023). (2022). Ahimsa: Tagore and Gandhi. South Asian Review.
- (2024). A song of teaching with free software in the Anthropocene. In Bradley, J. (Ed.). Bernard Stiegler and the Philosophy of Education II: Experiments in Negenthropic Knowledge. London: Routledge.
- (2022). Represencing the Digital Trace in Networked Learning. In Jaldemark, J., Håkansson Lindqvist, M., Mozelius, P., Öberg, A., De Laat, M., Dohn, N.B., Ryberg, T. (Eds.), Proceedings for the Thirteenth International Conference on Networked Learning 2022. Sundsval: Mid-Sweden University.
- (2022). The need for free software education now, Free Software Foundation Bulletin 40 (Spring), related post here.
- (2022). A song of teaching with free software in the Anthropocene, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54(5), 545-556.
- (2022). Digital Tools are for Thinking Together: Tools for Co-Creative Coordination, in Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching: a Collective Response to The Manifesto for Teaching Online (Bayne et al. 2020), Postdigital Science and Education 4, 271–329.
- (2021). Teaching and Learning to Co-create, Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2021). The Odyssey of Pedagogies of Techno-scientific Literacies, Postdigital Science and Education, 3(5), 520-545.
Non-academic publications top
A selection of non-academic publications: (2004). “From Construction Papers”, Free Radicals. Honolulu, Oakland, New York: Subpress. (2016). “Moving through a medium”, “A lesson in space”, “Dialectics”, Ladowich, Issue 7.