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John Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has been awarded a visiting professorship for four weeks to the University of Paris 12 for next fall. Hartsock will teach a graduate seminar in literary journalism, his area of research, to doctoral students from Sept. 27-Oct 22. With an enrollment of 24,000, the University of Paris 12 is one of 13 campuses of the University of Paris system. Hartsock has also been invited to give a public lecture on his research at the American University of Paris.

In related news, Hartsock was the subject of an interview by the Washington Post last week on the potential role of narrative literary journalism in newspapers. Interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Brigid Shulte, he discussed how narrative literary journalism can attract more readers at a time when newspapers, including the Post, have been losing circulation. The interview is part of a Post project called “Story Lab,” which is dedicated to exploring the future of journalism. The interview can be accessed at http://blog.washingtonpost.com/story-lab/2010/04/narrative_journalism_a_convers.html

In other scholarship news, Hartsock published his article “Literary Reportage: The ‘Other’ Literary Journalism” in the most recent issue of the journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. The article explores the similarities and differences between American literary journalism and the tradition of literary reportage in Europe in the 20th century.