Ingeborg Van Teeseling

Dr Ingeborg van Teeseling is a journalist, historian, teacher and author. She taught interviewing, journalism and writing to journalists, bureaucrats, businesspeople and the general public in her native Holland. She migrated to Australia in 2006, after finishing a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Her PhD at the University of Wollongong (on migrant writers in Australia) was awarded in 2011. She taught literature, history and all manner of other things at UOW, and worked as a...See more

Dr Ingeborg van Teeseling is a journalist, historian, teacher and author. She taught interviewing, journalism and writing to journalists, bureaucrats, businesspeople and the general public in her native Holland. She migrated to Australia in 2006, after finishing a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Her PhD at the University of Wollongong (on migrant writers in Australia) was awarded in 2011. She taught literature, history and all manner of other things at UOW, and worked as a research assistant. Her MA thesis in History was about working class writers in Australia in the 1950s. She runs http: //www.australia-explained.com.au, trying to help migrants come to terms with Australia. Her 2017 book 'Shack Life' won that year's National Trust Heritage Award. Ingeborg currently works for CHANGE, a publisher in The Netherlands, where she writes Dutch and English books for migrants and activists. See less