Calvin L. Hall, Ph.D.

Department Rank:
Assistant Professor

Area:
Journalism

Office: Walker Hall 126
Fax: 828-2622543
Email: hallcl@appstate.edu

Education

B.A., English, N. C. State University
M.A., English (Creative Writing concentration), N. C. State University
Ph.D., Mass Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill

Teaching Specialties

Print Journalism
Editing
Diversity in Mass Communication
Scholastic Journalism
Literary Journalism and Journalism Autobiography

Current Courses Being Taught

Fall 2009
COM 2610-Print Newswriting
COM 3210-Copy Editing
COM 3536-Literary Journalism

Professional Affiliations / Organizations

American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA)
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
American Copy Editors Society

National Communication Association (NCA)
North Carolina Humanities Council (NCHC)
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society

Research Interests

Diversity in Mass Communication
Scholastic Journalism
Literary Journalism and Journalism Autobiography
Journalism History-Minority press
Creative Writing

Selected Publications

Book
African American Journalists: Autobiography as Memoir and Manifesto. Published by the Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Papers, Reviews
"'Getting the South Told': The Use of Irony in Editorials in the
Chicago Defender,
1916-1919." Paper published in the Journal of Communication Studies,
Spring 2003.
"Barbarians at the Gate." Poem published in Writer to Writer
Magazine, September-
October 2001. "God’s Children." Short story published in Writer to
Writer magazine,
September-October 2000.
"Larceny." Short story published in The Rectangle, the literary
journal of the
international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta. May 2000.
Review of Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for
Black Power. Journalism
Quarterly. Summer 2005.
Review of Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles Over Mississippi TV,
1955-1969.
Journalism Quarterly. Summer 2005.