Faculty Profile

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

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 and Mass Communication Leadership Institute in Diversity sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She is the author of books about modern novels of the American South, literary journalism, and women in journalism history and is the editor of a collection of essays about Carson McCullers.  Her book “Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism” (University Press of America, 2008) was named in “A Dozen Best: A Review of Literary Journalism Scholarship” by American Journalism. “Reflections in a Critical Eye: Essays on Carson McCullers” (University Press of America, 2007) won recognition from ForeWord Magazine, the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and the Colorado Book Awards.  She teaches courses in American literature, literary journalism, media history, popular culture, professional writing, and women’s issues.  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.