Bio
Dr. Tracy Lucht is currently serving as the interim director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. She is an expert on the history, experiences and representations of women in the U.S. media. A winner of the National Award for Excellence in Teaching from the American Journalism Historians Association, Dr. Lucht teaches courses in writing and reporting for the media, news and feature editing, and journalism history. She has written, co-written or edited several books, including The Media in America: A History (Vision Press); Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist (Syracuse University Press); and Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness (Peter Lang). Her latest research is about Amelia Bloomer and early feminist journalism. Dr. Lucht previously worked as a copy editor at USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Des Moines Register.
Topics of interest
feminist discourse, journalism history, women and the media