BARNHURST, Kevin G. 1951-

PERSONAL: Born December 22, 1951, in Salt Lake City, UT; son of D. J. and Venice (Mendenhall) Barnhurst; married Lucinda Anne Nightingale, March 11, 1978 (divorced, 1986); partner of Richard J. Doherty (an environmental educator and consultant); children: Joel, Andrew, Matthew. Education: Brigham Young University, B.A., 1975, M.A., 1979; University of Amsterdam, Ph.D., 1997. Hobbies and other interests: Collecting and curating newspapers, computer-based art.

ADDRESSES: Home—5002 North Glenwood Ave., Apt. 3, Chicago, IL 60640-3561 (winter); Hidden Pond Lane, P.O. Box 285, Stoddard, NH 03464-0285 (summer). Offıce—University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Communication, 1148A Behavioral Science Building, 1007 West Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607-7137; fax: 312-413-2125. E-mail—kgbcomm@ uic.edu.

CAREER: Educator. Keene State College, Keene, NH, began as instructor, became assistant professor of arts and humanities, 1982-86; University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, assistant professor, 1986-91; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, associate professor of communication, 1991-98; University of Illinois at Chicago, associate professor of communication, 1998—, interim head of department, 2002—. Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, FL, visiting faculty member, 1988-89; Fulbright Professor at University of Lima, University of Piura, and Cuzco National University, 1989; University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, visiting professor, 1996. Director of Life History and Media Project.

MEMBER: International Communication Association, International Visual Sociology Association, American Political Science Association, American Sociological Association, National Communication Association, Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation.

AWARDS, HONORS: National teaching award, 1985; National Gold Award, United Way of America, 1986; research fellow, Columbia University, 1991-92; Lowell Mellett Award, 1994, for Seeing the Newspaper; Shorenstein fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2001; Covert Award, 2001, Langer Award, 2002, and best book of the year selection, International Communication Association, 2003, all for The Form of News: A History.

WRITINGS:

Seeing the Newspaper, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1994.

(With John Nerone) The Form of News: A History, Guilford Press (New York, NY), 2001.

Contributor to Gay Men at Mid-Life: Age before Beauty, edited by Alan Ellis, Harrington Park Press (New York, NY), 2001. Contributor to scholarly journals, including Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Communication, Media, and New Media and Society. Contributor of essays to periodicals, including Dialogue, Expression, Mountainwest, and Rocky Mountain Magazine.

Editor for VisualSign, 1994-2000, and Political Communication Report, 1999-2002. Associate editor for Visual Studies, 2001—. Member of editorial board for P.S.: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Popular Communication, Journal of Visual Literacy, Visual Communication Quarterly, Communication Yearbook, Latin, and Ámbitos.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A book titled The New Long Journalism; an anthology titled Media Queered.

SIDELIGHTS: Kevin G. Barnhurst looks at the evolution of the American newspaper in The Form of News: A History, written with John Nerone. According to Warren Watson in Nieman Reports, The Form of News "is an academic, sometimes clinical and dispassionate, examination about how social, economic and cultural forces led to the development of the modern, professional product we call today's newspaper." Noting that the coauthors "deliver a great deal more" than implied by the book's title, Newspaper Research Journal reviewer E. W. Brody explained that in The Form of News Barnhurst and Nerone "rewrite the performance history of newspapers in design terms, tracing their evolution from the 'printerly' publications of the 1700s and early 1800s through the modern era."

Barnhurst and Nerone focus on the modifications to the structure and layout of newspapers, what Richard L. Kaplan called "the shifting visual dress of the news" in his Public Opinion Quarterly review. Kaplan added that in The Form of News the coauthors "pry the news ' visual appearance from the taken-for-granted and naturalized aspects of social life and hold up the squirming visual specimen for inspection and interpretation." Though E. W. Brody criticized the authors for not addressing the future of the newspaper industry, he also stated, "Barnhurst and Nerone do what they set out to do exceptionally well. They trace the graphic evolution of the newspaper and they trace the evolution of the newspaper's role in democratic civic culture."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Christian Science Monitor, January 30, 1996, Alexandra Marks, "After Years of Being Bashed, Media Starts to Bash Themselves," p. 1, 13.

Columbia Journalism Review, September, 2001, James Boylan, review of The Form of News: A History, p. 79.

Editor and Publisher, April 23, 1994, Hiley Ward, review of Seeing the Newspaper, p. 55.

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, winter, 2002, Scott Althaus, review of The Form of News, p. 131.

Journal of Communication Inquiry, autumn, 1994, Paul Messaris, review of Seeing the Newspaper, pp. 193-195.

Journalism Educator, spring, 1994, review of Seeing the Newspaper, pp. 84-85.

Journalism Studies, February, 2002, Jack Lule, review of The Form of News, pp. 154-155.

Newspaper Research Journal, summer, 2001, E. W. Brody, review of The Form of News, pp. 96-97.

News Photographer, October, 1994, Karen M. Kremer, review of Seeing the Newspaper, p. S11.

Nieman Reports, fall, 2001, Warren Watson, review of The Form of News, pp. 103-104.

Public Opinion Quarterly, summer, 2002, Richard L. Kaplan, review of The Form of News, pp. 306-309.

SND Design, summer, 1994, Steve Dorsey, "Kevin Barnhurst Discusses the Powerful Politics of Design," pp. 32-33.

Visual Communication Quarterly, fall, 1994, Karen M. Kramer, review of Seeing the Newspaper, p. 11.

Visual Sociology, Volume 11, number 1, 1996, Bruce J. Evensen, review of Seeing the Newspaper, pp. 75-76.

Washington Post, July 14, 1996, Richard Morin, "Unconventional Wisdom: New Facts and Hot Spots from the Social Sciences," p. 5.

ONLINE

University of Illinois at Chicago Web site,http://www.uic.edu/ (December 22, 2003).