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Kathy Roberts Forde B.A., University of the South (Sewanee) Kathy Roberts Forde is a twentieth century American media historian with research interests in the First Amendment, the African American freedom struggle, literary journalism, and the history of the book and print culture. Her book Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2008, won the Frank Luther Mott-KTA book award and the AEJMC History Division book award in 2009. Her dissertation was awarded the AEJMC Nafziger-White dissertation award in 2006. Forde is currently working on a second book, under contract with UMass Press, that attempts to build bridges among three subfields of historical inquiry into the American twentieth century: journalism history, civil rights history, and the history of the book and print culture. A publication and reading history of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, the book examines the role of black cultural expression in shaping social and political thought and policy across what Nikhil Pal Singh has termed the “long civil rights era.” She has published articles and chapters in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (forthcoming), Book History (forthcoming, co-authored with Katie Foss), Communication Law & Policy, American Journalism, Journalism Practice, Sex in Consumer Culture (co-authored with Carol J. Pardun), Advertising & Society: An Introduction, and The Encyclopedia of Journalism. Forde has taught undergraduate courses in American journalism history, media law, literary journalism, and information gathering and evaluation. She has also taught graduate seminars in mass communication history and qualitative methods in communication research. She is designing a course with colleague Sid Bedingfield, to be offered in spring 2012, on American media and civil rights history. |
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