Malene Sheppard Skaerved
Staff details
Position
MCCS Convener and Lecturer for Creative Writing and Senior Tutor
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
mskaerved (@gold.ac.uk)
Malene Sheppard Skaerved is a writer, filmmaker, and performer.
Malene is convener of MCCS Creative Writing and a Senior Tutor for second-year MCCS students. She supervises GoldDust magazine.
Academic qualifications
- BA, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA 1991
- MFA, Columbia University, NYC, USA 1996
Featured publications
2025:
Hogarth at Home: The Line of Beauty
An evening of music and words in William Hogarth’s house
2015:
Richer Dust (Symphony, speaker and Wind Orchestra, 45 mins)
A libretto for the symphony by Nigel Clarke. Performances: MTSU, TN. Salem, Ohio, Le Conservatoire de Strasbourg, City of London Winds a
2003:
Marlene Dietrich
BIOGRAPHY) 2003 Commissioned and published 'Life and Times', Haus Publishing.