Dr. Joseph Cosco, Associate Professor, Journalism

Ph.D. College of William & Mary M.A. Columbia University Diploma Trinity College (Dublin) B.A. Dartmouth College 4055 Batten Arts & Letters 757-683-5473 JCosco <AT> odu.edu

Teaching

Introduction to Journalism and News Writing

Feature Story Writing

Sports Journalism

American Literature to 1860

American Literature after 1860

American Travel Literature

Visiting Lecturer, University of Kitakyushu, Japan (August 2005)
Visiting Lecturer, University of Essex, England (November 2003)

Research Areas

Journalism/Periodicals History

19th and Early 20th Century American Literature

Travel Narratives

American Cultural History

Immigration/Ethnicity/Race

Selected Publications

Imagining Italians: Race, Romance, and Reality in American Perception, 1880-1910 (State University of New York Press, 2003).

"Lynching Those Magnificently Miserable Italians: Mark Twain Revisits an American Tragedy," Columbia Journal of American Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2002).

"Jacob Riis: Immigrants Old and New, and the Making of American," American Journalism: A Journal of Media History, Summer 2003, Vol. 20, No. 3