Joe Hayden, Ph.D.

Professor

Phone Email jhayden@memphis.edu Fax Office 304 Meeman Journalism Building Office Hours As posted on syllabi

Education

Ph.D., History, Indiana University
M.A., History, Vanderbilt University
M.A., Journalism, University of Missouri
B.A., English, Centre College

 

About Dr. Joe Hayden

Dr. Joe Hayden, a former television news writer, reporter and producer, specializes in media history and politics. He is the author of A History of Disinformation in the U.S. (Routledge 2024), two books on presidential-press relations (Covering Clinton and A Dubya in the Headlights), a monograph on American journalists at the end of World War I (Negotiating in the Press), and a co-authored book on Southern editors during the Civil War (Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy). In 2018, he co-produced a documentary on civil rights activism in Memphis, Once More at the River. He has taught writing for more than 20 years and published two books on the subject: The Little Grammar Book (Marion Street Press, 2012) and a companion volume, The Little Style Book (Marion Street Press, 2015). In 2008, he received the Thomas W. Briggs Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2015, Dr. Hayden received a Faudree Professorship, a three-year appointment. He has also taught in Germany, Egypt, and China.