Associate Professor Jan Whitt
Armory 104A
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Jan.Whitt@Colorado.edu
303-492-0461 phone
303-492-0969 fax

Associate Professor Jan Whitt has been named an outstanding teacher by students and faculties at three universities: Baylor University, the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Recognition at CU includes 2001 and 2002 LEAD Alliance awards from CU students of color, the 1995 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, a 1991-92 Outstanding Undergraduate Adviser Award and a 1989 SOAR Teacher Recognition Award.  In 2003, she graduated from the Journalism Leadership Institute in Diversity sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).  Author of a book on Southern literature and culture, she teaches courses in literary journalism, women's issues, literature, media history and writing and popular culture. She has published numerous articles on newspaper history, American literature, LGBT studies and literary journalism. She is publishing Women in Journalism: A New History (2008) with the University of Illinois Press. The book proposal won the Mary Ann Yodelis Smith award in feminist scholarship through AEJMC in 2005. She is also publishing Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in American Journalism (2008) and Reflections in a Critical Eye: Essays on Carson McCullers (2007), both with University Press of America. Her current project is Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: The Story of Mississippi Editor Hazel Brannon Smith, which is one in a series of books on Southern dissent published by the University Press of Florida. A former newspaper reporter and editor, Whitt is a cum laude graduate of Baylor, where she received a BA in journalism and English in 1977 and a master's degree in English in 1980. She holds a PhD degree in English from the University of Denver.