School of Letters
Associate Professor of Writing and Journalism
About
Whitfield’s journalism lab files real stories for a regional audience—with a corrections policy students have to run themselves. Writing Across the Curriculum is revision as a public act: peer review, named evidence, and a portfolio that would survive an editor. She was a metro reporter for nine years and still marks buried ledes in red.
Education
- M.F.A., Nonfiction, University of Iowa
- M.A., Journalism, Columbia University
- B.A., Political Science, Macalester College
Courses
Research
Verification pedagogy; corrections as civic practice; writing transfer across majors.