Joyce Hoffmann, 39th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Joyce Hoffmann’s long interest in politics spans both her careers in journalism, when covered presidential elections, and in academia, beginning with her doctoral dissertation, Theodore White and Journalism as Illusion, which explored the intersection of politics and journalism. More recently, her research interests have focused on the historic role of women in journalism with her 2008 book, On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam, and in 2015, her edited collection, Newswomen: Twenty-Five Years of Front-age Journalism, which spotlights the achievements of women in the profession over the past quarter century