Greta Goetz received her BA in Anthropology and Writing from Columbia University, New York, where she graduated cum laude and was a recipient of three poetry prizes. She was raised in Hong Kong, where she was educated in her early years before matriculating to schools in Switzerland and America. Her freshman year was spent in France, where she received Mention Bien at the Sorbonne, Paris. From 2001 to 2015, she was enrolled in the postgraduate program at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, where she earned her MA in 2009 and her PhD in 2015. Her dissertation was entitled An Intercultural Reading of the Autobiography of Michael Pupin: Science, Nation, and Narration.

Her professional experience includes work at the Newsdesk at TIME in New York City, as sub-editor for the Hong Kong Standard, and as a freelance writer. She worked at Columbia University in administrative positions and was promoted to Department Secretary, overseeing several sub-departments at Teacher’s College. Other experience in the field of education includes work with Teachers and Writers in New York.

Since 2001, she has taught at the English Department at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Her courses include or have included Contemporary English IV, Academic Speaking, Academic Writing, and courses in American Cultural Studies. She has published academic papers and is working on a manuscript expanding on the ideas published in the BELLS90 proceedings under the title of “Pedagogy of Extraneity: Cultural Studies in a Global Information Age”. She periodically translates and copy-edits academic papers and monographs written by Serbian authors and professors but her main interests are in teaching; intercultural studies – drawing on anthropology and ethnological narrative; hermeneutics; philological “slow reading”; critical pedagogy, and science and technology studies (STS). She has developed an approach to networked learning course design through cooperation with the Trans-Atlantic and Pacific Project. A recent presentation was given at the 2018 Networked Learning Conference.

She speaks fluent English, has good working knowledge of French and Serbian, and working knowledge of Italian and Cantonese (spoken in southern China).