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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">First, let me apologize if you get multiple copies of this message:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I’m posting to several listservs: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">The Department of Creative Writing is interviewing four candidates for an assistant professorship in journalism over the next two weeks, and you are invited to come meet and talk with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>All meetings will be at 2 p.m. in our new conference room in 4111 INTS (the new building behind Arts and next to PE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination: none;tab-stops:.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>a.</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>Tuesday, Jan. 22: Bill Grantham</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">: a native of Britain and graduate of Oxford, Grantham was a newspaper journalist in England and Paris bureau chief of <i>Variety</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> and <i>Daily Variety</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">. He earned a law degree from Berkeley and, recently, a doctorate in media and cultural studies from UK's University of Sunderland. He's the author of three books and many academic, legal and popular articles on media, pop entertainment, journalism, law, and policy. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination: none;tab-stops:.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>b. <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Thursday, Jan. 24: Claire Hoffman</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">: West Coast contributing editor of <i>Condé Nast Portfolio</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">, Hoffman was a business staff writer for the <i>LA Times</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> until last year, and previously was a documentary treatment writer in Chicago and a freelance reporter/research intern for the <i>New York Times</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">. She has masters degrees in religious studies from the University of Chicago and in journalism from Columbia U. Her undergraduate anthropology degree is from UC Santa Cruz.<span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination: none;tab-stops:.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>c. <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Tuesday, Jan. 29: Sara-Ellen Amster</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">: Dr. Amster is the lead faculty member in journalism at National University in Costa Mesa. A former reporter at, among others, the Wilmington, DE, <i>News-Journal</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">, Gannett Suburban Newspapers in Westchester County, NY, and <i>Florida Today</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">, she earned a doctorate in communication from UC San Diego, a masters from Harvard, and a BA in English from Cornell University. Her 2006 book is entitled <i>Seeds of Cynicism: The Undermining of Journalistic Education</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination: none;tab-stops:.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>d. <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Thursday, Jan. 31: Devon Powers</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">: Dr. Powers recently completed a dissertation on rock music criticism at the<i> Village Voice</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">, earning her doctorate in media, culture and communication from NYU; her BA in English is from Oberlin. Formerly a music critic and concert/interviews editor at PopMatters.com, she was also an editorial assistant at <i>Teen People</i></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> magazine, both in New York. She's contributed freelance articles to, among others, <i>Suede</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica"> magazine and the <i>Village Voice</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> Please come, and bring a friend.</span></p><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><b><i>D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair</i></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Department of Creative Writing, 4126 INTS</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">U of California, Riverside CA 92506</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">951.827.6076 FAX 951.827.3619</span></font></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>