Contributors
Alistair Fraser resided at Goodenough College (then called Byron Court) from 1967-1968. His discipline is Applied Maths/Meteorology (Imperial College). Life at Goodenough was rich: days were spent studying at Imperial; evenings were spent at opera and ballet at Covent Garden. He became a Professor of Meteorology, and as an emeritus, he photographs wildlife.
Benjamin Gallup is a Canadian history teacher who has resided at Goodenough with his partner since September 2019. He has drawn for much of his life and was inspired by the beautiful combination of architecture and nature at Goodenough’s garden. To him, the trees are the main characters of this picture.
B. J. Rahn first came to William Goodenough House as a Fulbright Fellow in 1963 to write her Ph.D. thesis on political satire during the Popish Plot Crisis (1678-1683). Two years later, she moved across the street into a small flat in Byron Court. During 35 years teaching English literature at Hunter College in NYC, Mecklenburgh Square always beckoned in summer. In retirement she spends half her time ‘at home’ in Bloomsbury researching and writing.
Chi-Yu Lee is from Taiwan. He has lived at Goodenough since 2017. He studies Neuroscience.
Cora Drozd (WGH ’19-’20), originally from Texas, United States, is studying for an MSc in Media and Communication Governance at LSE with a focus in national security studies. Cora enjoys participating in College life, including port talks, the coffee and ballet societies, and football matches, but says her greatest love is Tiger Lily.
Daniel Linde is an LLM student at the LSE, and is resident at Goodenough College for one year beginning September 2019. Daniel is an admitted attorney in South Africa. Before moving to London, Daniel worked as the Deputy Director of the Equal Education Law Centre, a public interest law firm. He is a martial arts enthusiast, and this piece forms part of an ongoing project which examines the history of martial arts in Apartheid South Africa.
Debayan Chatterjee is a Commonwealth Scholar from India, studying MSc Urban Development Planning at the Bartlett-UCL. His research explores the effect of time-space planning on Indian cities and argues that urban practitioners should start acknowledging temporality as their new reality. He is also a Goodenough scholar staying in London house for the last eight months.
Diana Baron is 30 years old and an Israeli lawyer and writer. Soon to publish her first sci-fi novel, this upcoming year. She is passionate about writing poetry, prose, composing music and studying astrophysics in her spare time. She founded We are GoodEnough Magazine during her stay at London House during 2017-2018.https://www.facebook.com/DianaBaronWriter/
Emily Halpern (LH, ’09-’10) is a museum educator and baker from Brooklyn, NY. She earned her MA in Cultural Memory from the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, focusing on how food conveys identity through generations. Baker & Bard is a public history project that uses cookies to explore culture.
Frances Allen is a musician who is originally from Inverness, Scotland. She joined the college last September when she moved to London to begin her Masters. She studies Sound Design at the Royal College of Art.
Husnia Safari roots from Afghanistan and calls Oxford home. After completing her Bachelors in Maths and Economics, she decided to pursue International Development in London to experience the beautiful chaos that it is, calling it home for six months whilst a GC member enjoying the quietness of the WG library in the early morning hours with birds singing in the quad.
Jose Manuel Matte is from Chile, and has been part of GC since January 2020. He is a lawyer studying for an MPA master at LSE. He loves photography and travelling and how you can mix architecture and culture throughout the lens.
Joshua Levy writes in many genres (fiction, memoir, poetry, etc), and was last year’s CBC Writer-in-Residence. He is a winner of the CBC Fiction Prize, CNFC/Carte Blanche Nonfiction Prize, Prairie Fire Nonfiction Prize, and SLS Nonfiction Prize, and a finalist for the Vallum Poetry Chapbook Prize, CBC Nonfiction Prize, Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize, and Montreal International Poetry Prize. Levy’s first full-length book of poetry, The Loudest Thing, was published by Mansfield Press at the end of 2019. Levy’s work has been published by the Oxford University Press, the Rumpus, the Malahat Review, etc. He lived at Goodenough College in 2010 and 2011 and has many fond memories. Levy divides his time between Lisbon, Portugal and Montreal, Canada.
Katerina Zacharopoulou comes from Greece, and moved to Goodenough College in August 2019. She is a first year PhD student in Architectural History and Theory at UCL, exploring the relationship between humour and architecture. Despite having lived in London for three years, she still can’t get used to the underground.
Kirsten Strom is a young New Zealand composer, conductor and creative writer. Her award-winning music has been commissioned, performed by national orchestras, aired on radio and featured in international festivals. Her work draws from mixed media, social concerns, the bible and the complex beauty of nature.
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian linguist, writer, and scholar. His debut collection of poetry Edwardsville by Heart was published by Wisdom’s Bottom Press, Oxford, in 2018. His language advocacy earned him the Premio Ostana in 2016, a prize given by Chambra D’Oc in Italy, for work and advocacy in the mother tongue, becoming the first African so-honoured. He’s currently a Chevening Research Fellow at the British Library in London.
Mauricio Urrutia is a Chilean Sociologist with a passion for architecture, photography and urban landscape. He joined Goodenough College in September 2019 and is doing an MSc in International Social and Public Policy, focused on migration.
Natalie Corthesy is an alumna of Goodenough College.
Nicholas Nabil Tebogo Rawhani is a Poet, Electrical Engineer, Community Development Worker, Photographer and Strategist. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, he came to London to study an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures at Imperial College. He lived at Goodenough from September 2019 until COVID-19.
Nina Finley is an American disease ecologist investigating ecological solutions to human health problems. She spent the past two years researching the unseen directors of our planet — microbes! — in Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar and the Canadian Arctic. In September 2019, she moved to Goodenough College and began a master’s program in One Health, a field that integrates public health with veterinary medicine.
Rohit Lahoti is an architect, urban researcher and a documentary photographer from Mumbai and currently pursuing postgraduate studies in Urban Development Planning at UCL. He has been residing at Goodenough since September 2019. He is interested in understanding cities and urban spaces through the lens of people, particularly the marginalized sections of the society.
Sandy Grieve was a resident at GC flat 213, with his wife Di and 3 children Ben, Becky and Sam (now 6 children and 2 grandchildren) in 1989/90. Home country is Australia and my discipline is surgery. He worked at The London Hospital Whitechapel (just before it became the Royal London).
Shanzay Subzwari is a fine artist and freelance writer from Karachi, Pakistan. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University, as a Chevening Scholar. Shanzay’s gouache and watercolour paintings combine elements from Mughal miniature paintings, currency notes, kitsch and popular culture, with a recent foray into paper-cutting. She has been a Goodenough College member from 2019-2020.
Co-Editors
Claire Hurley came to London from Montréal, Canada, in September 2019 to pursue an MA in Contemporary Literature from Queen Mary, University of London. She treasured every moment spent living at Goodenough, learning from and growing alongside the incredible community it fosters.
Sarah Gibbs is completing a PhD in English Literature at University College London (UCL). She recently became an alumna after two and a half years at the College. Unitas in sapienta. Nemo separabit.