Whitt (journalism and mass communication, University of Colorado, Boulder) uncovers the historical contributions of women to American journalism. She offers chapters on the commonly recognized women r
A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia. This book un
Settling the Borderland deals with the intimate connection between journalism and literature, both fields in which work by women has been underrepresented. This book has a twin focus: the work of jour
This book celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi, Smith began her journalism career
Mining from the mainstream, and never going too far afield, Whitt (literature and media studies, U. of Colorado at Boulder) carefully constructs her take on American film and television and its relati
Whitt (journalism and mass communication, U. of Colorado) collects ten essays on American writer Carson McCullers (1917-1967), whose novels and other writings are often described as Southern Gothic. F
