Department of Communication
Wake Forest University
P.O. Box 7347
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Office (336) 758-6120
Fax (336) 887-8323
dalton@wfu.edu

Mary Dalton has a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and an M.A. in Broadcasting/Cinema from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She earned her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University where she holds the appointments Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow and Associate Professor of Communication.

A revised and expanded edition of her book, The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies has been published along with a volume she co-edited with Laura R. Linder, The Sitcom Reader:  America Viewed and Skewed.  Mary's other professional activities are wide-ranging. Her film Martha in Lattimore premiered at the Real to Reel Film Festival (where it won Best Documentary) and was also an Official Selection of SILVERDOCS:  AFI-Discovery Channel Documentary Festival. (See www.marthainlattimore.com for more information.)

Mary lives in Jamestown, NC with her son. She collects Southern folk pottery (specifically face jugs) and primitive antiques. Her interests include cooking, knitting, gardening, reading fiction, seeing movies, and following the progress of her former students