William Rainbolt
Associate Professor
Director of Journalism Program
Ph.D,
University at Albany
Reporting and Writing, Magazine Article Writing, Literary Journalism, Media Ethics, Media History, Images of Journalism in Popular Culture
Humanities 312
442-4087
rainbolt@albany.edu
http://www.albany.edu/~rainbolt
I am the Director of the Journalism Program at the University at Albany, where I have been teaching since 1984.
Exciting days are ahead for the UAlbany Program, which has existed for three decades. Beginning in 2004-2005, two new fulltime faculty members will join us, and we will also begin the paperwork journey toward becoming a strong interdisciplinary major. (Right now, the Program offers a minor – but a quite large one, with 12 sections and 240+ students enrolled each semester in a variety of introductory and advanced workshops and lecture courses). The Capital Region of New York State – a center for state government, technology (“Tech Valley”), science, education, and more – offers the perfect locale for such a Journalism Program.
Browse my web page (above) to learn more about me – about how a native Texan landed in Upstate New York, about my teaching and research interests, about my historical fiction novel, about my film history dissertation, and more.
I have a broad range of classroom and research interests which have been developed over more than twenty years of teaching and writing, and which strongly reflect my own interdisciplinary orientation media, culture, and history.
My teaching now tends to be concentrated in undergraduate workshop courses in reporting/news writing, opinion writing, and feature writing, and lecture courses in such fields as cultural history, film, literary nonfiction, and media law/ethics.
My research focuses on images of media in film, media in both contemporary and historical contexts, the political culture of the Great Depression/New Deal, and creative nonfiction. I have published in a wide variety of places, including an historical novel, an academic monograph, and scores of academic and general articles in such publications as The New York Times, The Writer, Editor & Publisher, Journalism Educator, and New York State Bar News.
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