Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2005
Stacy Spaulding, Ph.D.
she, her, hers
Professor
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
- “Literary Journalism’s Historical Lineage: In Defense of Mencken.” The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism. William E. Dow and Roberta S. Maguire, Eds. New York: Routledge. 2020. P. 288-299.
- “The Intellectual Eater: The Regional Food Editorials of H.L. Mencken.” Journalism History. Vol 43, No. 3 (Fall 2017) p. 154-161.
- “The Poetics of Goodbye: An Examination of Plot, Change and Nostalgia in Narratives Penned by ex-Baltimore Sun Employees.” 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.
- “The Afro-American’s World War II Correspondents: Feuilletonism as Social Action,” co-authored with Antero Pietila. Literary Journalism Studies 5, no 2 (Fall 2013): 37-58.
- “Love Letters to Baltimore: Civic Memory, Citizenship, and Urban Community Narratives.” Literary Journalism Studies 4, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 43-63.
- “ ‘As Though the Sixties Never Happened’: The Newspaper Coverage of a First Amendment Battle over Baltimore’s Last Blackface Act,” American Journalism, 29:3, 59–83, Summer 2012.
- “Off the Blacklist, But Still a Target: The Anti-Communist Attacks on Lisa Sergio,” Journalism Studies 10(6):789-804 (2009).
- “Totalitarian Refugee or Fascist Mistress? Comparing Lisa Sergio’s Autobiography to her FBI File,” Journalism History 34(3):145-154 (2008).
- “Lisa Sergio’s ‘Column of the Air’: An Examination of the Gendered History of Radio, (1940-1945),” American Journalism 22, no. 1 (2005): 35-60.
- “Did Women Listen to News? A Critical Examination of Landmark Radio Audience Research (1935-1948),” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 82, no. 1 (2005): 44-61.
In “Race Goes To War,” now available as an Amazon single, Dr. Spaulding and former Baltimore Sun reporter Antero Pietila examine the Baltimore Afro American's coverage of World War II.
In 2022, Dr. Spaulding completed the "H.L. Mencken House Oral History Collection" documenting the first-hand experiences of community members who led the fight to preserve the H.L. Mencken House as a museum and historic landmark.