Stacy Spaulding, Ph.D.

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Professor

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Contact Info

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Media Center, 114B

Education

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2005

Areas of Expertise

Journalism history
Literary journalism

Biography

Dr. Spaulding has experience in print, broadcast and online journalism. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2005. Prior to her appointment at Towson University in 2007, she was a reporter at the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun and an associate professor of journalism at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Md. Her research focuses on the history of Baltimore journalism. She has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, American Journalism, Journalism History, Journalism Studies and Literary Journalism Studies

Selected Publications

  • Spaulding, Stacy. "Before Silent Spring: A Field Guide to the Works of Rachel Carson." Literary Journalism Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2 and Vol. 16, No. 1 (June 2025): 32-60.
  • H.L. Mencken House Oral History Collection. Digital Maryland. 2021. 
  • 鈥淟iterary Journalism鈥檚 Historical Lineage: In Defense of Mencken.鈥 The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism. William E. Dow and Roberta S. Maguire, Eds. New York: Routledge. 2020. P. 288-299.
  • 鈥淭he Intellectual Eater: The Regional Food Editorials of H.L. Mencken.鈥 Journalism History. Vol 43, No. 3 (Fall 2017) p. 154-161.
  •  鈥淭he Poetics of Goodbye:  An Examination of Plot, Change and Nostalgia in Narratives Penned by ex-Baltimore Sun Employees.鈥 Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, February 2016: Vol. 17, Nos. 2.  
  • "The Epistolary Mencken? Lively Letters as Evidence of an Editor's Business Education." Menckeniana, no. 209 (Spring 2015): 3-11.
  • 鈥淭he Afro-American鈥檚 World War II Correspondents: Feuilletonism as Social Action,鈥 co-authored with Antero Pietila. Literary Journalism Studies 5, no 2 (Fall 2013): 37-58.
  • 鈥淟ove Letters to Baltimore: Civic Memory, Citizenship, and Urban Community Narratives.鈥 Literary Journalism Studies 4, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 43-63.
  •  鈥 鈥楢s Though the Sixties Never Happened鈥: The Newspaper Coverage of a First Amendment Battle over Baltimore鈥檚 Last Blackface Act,鈥 American Journalism, 29:3, 59鈥83, Summer 2012.
  • 鈥淥ff the Blacklist, But Still a Target: The Anti-Communist Attacks on Lisa Sergio,鈥 Journalism Studies 10(6):789-804 (2009).
  • 鈥淭otalitarian Refugee or Fascist Mistress? Comparing Lisa Sergio鈥檚 Autobiography to her FBI File,鈥 Journalism History 34(3):145-154 (2008).
  • 鈥淟isa Sergio鈥檚 鈥楥olumn of the Air鈥: An Examination of the Gendered History of Radio, (1940-1945),鈥 American Journalism 22, no. 1 (2005): 35-60.
  • 鈥淒id Women Listen to News? A Critical Examination of Landmark Radio Audience Research (1935-1948),鈥 Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 82, no. 1 (2005): 44-61.