Associate Professor Jan Whitt

Associate Professor Jan Whitt taught Contemporary Media and Critical Thinking and Writing for the School and for the CU Division of Continuing Education. She also taught Introduction to Women's Literature and Modern and Contemporary Literature for the CU-Boulder English Department.

"The highlight of my year was my participation as a fellow in the Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership Institute for Diversity program, sponsored jointly by AEJMC (the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) and ASJMC (the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication). The program involves a series of training workshops and a week of mentoring by the dean of a journalism and mass communication program."

Whitt served as interim head of media studies and co-director of CU's Undergraduate Academy, a program for Boettcher and Norlin scholars. She also received a CU-Leadership, Excellence, Achievement and Diversity Alliance faculty appreciation award and a Community Builder Brick Award for teaching and mentoring undergraduates.

She published articles on the writing of Terry Tempest Williams in Journal of the West and on two white civil rights journalists in the Deep South in Southern Studies. Whitt also presented conference papers on Williams, on teaching writing skills in journalism schools, on John Steinbeck as a writer of nonfiction, on Sara Davidson as a literary journalist and on the portrayal of lesbians in American film.