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Department of Journalism
Dr. Sheila M. Webb
Assistant Professor
Johnston Hall 519
(414) 288-7291 Phone
(414) 288-3923 Fax
sheila.webb@mu.edu
Courses Taught
JOUR 020: Basic PhotographyJOUR 150: News & Information Design
JOUR 151: Magazine Design & Production
JOUR 152: Web Design and Production
JOUR 197: Magazines in American Life & Culture
COMM 021: Principles of Visual Communication
COMM 296: Theory & Practice of Visual Communication
Education
Ph.D., School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin.M.F.A., Photography and the Book Arts, University of Wisconsin.
M.A. Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin.
B.A. English Literature and French Studies, University of Michigan.
Selected Awards/Grants Received
Top Faculty Paper, AEJMC Magazine Division 2006, “A Pictorial Myth in the Pages of Life – Small Town America as the Ideal Place.”Faculty Research Grant, awarded by Graduate Committee, Marquette University, for Fall 2006 to write-up research on “The Creation of an Imagined Community: A Reader Response Study of the Reiman Publications.”
Way Klinger Summer Research Grant, Marquette University, 2005.
Summer Faculty Fellowship, awarded by the Provost, Marquette University, 2004.
Summer Faculty Fellowship, awarded by the Committee on Research, Graduate School, Marquette University, 2004.
Co-Author with Lewis Friedland; Proposals for ONline@UW: Electronic Publishing Group to Pew Center for Civic Journalism, The Kettering Foundation, National Issues Forums, The Johnson Foundation, Pew Partnership for Civic Change; Resulting in $250,000 of revenue.
Why Marquette?
Wonderful students, engaged colleagues, supportive administration – all in an environment that encourages using knowledge to expand possibilities for all.Research Interests
Historical and cultural role of narratives and visuals in the mass media, particularly magazines; cultural studies and critical theory focusing on interpretive communities, imagined communities, taste publics, and community building, especially in new media; gender studies.Professional Affiliations
AEJMCAmerican Studies Association
Organization of American Historians
Professional Experience
Project Manager, ONline@UW, electronic publishing group for nonprofit civic journalism clients, including Civic Practices Network.Museum Educator and Curator, specializing in 20th century works of art on paper, at Cleveland Museum of Art, Sioux City Art Center, and John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Produced 18 exhibitions and 10 catalogs.
Recent Publications
“The Narrative of Core Traditional Values in Reiman Magazines,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 83, no. 4 (Winter 2006).“Life Magazine’s Small Town America – A Pictorial Myth.” Studies in Popular Culture 28, no. 3 (2006): 35-58.
“The Tale of Advancement: Life Magazine’s Construction of the Modern American Success Story.” Journalism History 32, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 2-12.
“An American Journalist in the Role of Partisan – Dickey Chapelle’s Coverage of the Algerian War.” American Journalism 22, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 111-134.
“’America is a Middle Class Nation’: The Presentation of Class in the Pages of Life.” In Class & News, edited by Donald Heider, 167-198. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
“Dorothy Day and the Early Years of the Catholic Worker: Social Action Through the Pages of the Press." U.S. Catholic Historian 21, no. 3 (Summer 2003): 71-88.
“Incorporating Online Publishing into the Curriculum.” With Lewis A. Friedland, Journalism & Mass Communication
Educator 51, no. 3 (Autumn 1996): 54–65.
“Art Commentary for the Middlebrow: Promoting Modernity & Modern Art through Popular Culture – How Life Magazine Brought ‘The New’ into Middle Class Homes,” Revise & Resubmit, American Journalism.
