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Kevin Barnhurst University of Illinois at Chicago

Kevin Barnhurst is a professor in the Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago. His areas of specialty include visual media culture, political communication, narrative studies of news consumption, critical analysis of journalism, and qualitative research methods. His most recent book, Media Queered: Visibility and its Discontents (New York: Peter Lang), was a finalist in Arts & Culture for the Lambda Literary Awards. His previous work, The Form of News, A History (New York: The Guilford Press), with John Nerone, won the ICA Outstanding Book Award (2003), the MEA Suzanne Langer Award (2002) for outstanding scholarship on symbolic form, and the AEJMC Covert Award (2001) for best research on the history of the media. His first book, Seeing the Newspaper (New York: St. Martin's Press) won a Mellett citation for media criticism and was named a best book of the year by In These Times magazine. More than 100 scholarly publications include several articles in the Journal of Communication and Critical Studies in Mass Communication, as well as two Journalism & Communication Monographs, book chapters, and shorter pieces, in English, Italian, and Portuguese, as well as Spanish. He lectures frequently at universities in Latin America and Europe and has been visiting scholar, University of Tampere, Finland, and guest professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2009); Distinguished Fulbright Chair, Italy (2006); Shorenstein Fellow (2001) at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Scholar (1999-2000) of the UIC Great Cities Institute; Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar (1991-1992) at Columbia University in New York City; and Senior Fulbright Scholar, Peru (1989).

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