Department of Communication

Contact and Overview

Email Address

edycm@appstate.edu

Office Hours

Monday: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:30-4:30 p.m.

And via Zoom appointment

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Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., St. Lawrence University

Teaching

Currently Teaching (Spring 2023)

COM 3210 Copy Editing
COM 3600 In-Depth Reporting and Writing

Courses Taught

COM 1300 Journalism Matters: An Introduction to News Literacy and News Writing
COM 2610 News Reporting & Writing
COM 3124 Intercultural Communication
COM 3130 Minorities in Media
COM 3210 Copy Editing
COM 3549 In-Depth Reporting in France
COM 3600 In-Depth Reporting and Writing
COM 3680 Literary Journalism

Teaching Specialties

News Literacy
News Reporting & Writing
Copy Editing
Literary Journalism
In-Depth Reporting
Feature Writing
Race and Diversity in Media

Professional Affiliations or Organizations

ACES, The Society for Editing
American Journalism Historians Association
American Historical Association
American Society of Journalists & Authors
Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
International Communication Association
Investigative Reporters & Editors

Research Specialties

Journalism History
War Correspondence
Women's History

Publications

• Dubbs, C. and Edy, C. The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press (In press; April 2023).
• Edy, C. “Outstanding and Conspicuous: Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer in the ETO.” In Reporting World War II: American Correspondents at the Front-Lines. Ed. G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer. New York: Fordham University Press (In press; April 2023).
• Fondren, E. and Edy, C. "Leonora Raines and Cecil Dorrian Cover the Great War (1914–1919)." Journalism History, July 2022.
• Edy, C. “War Correspondents, Women’s Interests, and World War II.” In Journalism’s Ethical Progression: A Twentieth-Century Journey. Ed. Gwyneth Mellinger and John Ferré. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019.
• Edy, C. “Trust but Verify: Myths and Misinformation in the History of Women War Correspondents,” American Journalism, 36, 2, Spring 2019.
• Edy, C. The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S. Military, and the Press: 1846-1947. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2017.
• Edy, C. "Christiane Amanpour," "Wangari Maathai," "Helen Thomas," and "Katrina vanden Heuvel." In The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Ed. Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, & Geoffrey J. Golson. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2011.
• Edy, C. "Women's Magazine Coverage of Heart Disease Risk Factors: Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1997 to 2007." Women & Health 50, 2, 2010.
• Edy, C. "Juggernaut in Kid Gloves: Inez Callaway Robb, 1900-1979." American Journalism 27, 4, Fall 2010.
• Edy, C. "Getting the Story: A Study of the State of Literary Journalism in the American Academy," in Literary Journalism: The Newsletter of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies 3, 4, Fall 2009.
• Edy, C. Review of Global Journalism Research: Theories, Methods, Future, M. Löffelholz and D. Weaver. (Blackwell Publishing, 2008.) In Global Media Journal 7, 13, Fall 2008.

Recent Awards

• Honorable Mention, Best Media History Book of 2017, American Journalism Historians Association
• Faculty Staff Appreciation Award 2015-2016, Outstanding Professor, College of Fine & Applied Arts, Appalachian State University
• Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Honorable Mention, AJHA
• Mary Gardner Award for Graduate Student Research, AEJMC
• Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, Harvard University
• Joseph L. Morrison Award for Excellence in Journalism History, UNC–Chapel Hill
• Minnie S. and Eli A. Rubinstein Research Award, UNC–Chapel Hill
• Top Student Paper, History Division, AEJMC Annual Convention
• Roy H. Park Doctoral Fellowship, UNC–Chapel Hill