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Mary M. Dalton

Full CV, 2025 (PDF)

Selected Highlights of Recent Professional Activity

Master of Fine Arts in Writing

  • The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University, 2023
    • Major in Fiction, Concentration in Screenwriting

Publications

  • Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television (2020), revised edition of Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television (2008)
  • Teachers, Teaching, and Media: Original Essays about Educators in Popular Culture, co-edited anthology (2019)
  • The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies (2017), fourth revised edition
  • Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned from Teachers on Television and in the Movies (2017), co-edited anthology
  • The Sitcom Reader: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed (2016), revised edition of The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed (2005)
  • Various reviews, chapters, and articles published

Range of Invited Presentations

  • Workshop “Crafting Characters Round and Flat for the Screen” at the North Carolina Writers Network Spring Conference at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, April 23, 2022
  • Invited Conversation, “An Evening with Dr. Mary Dalton: A Discussion of the History of the Teacher on Television and in Film,” History of Education Society Conference, sponsored by the Popular Culture Affinity Group (August 21, 2020)
  • Invited Lecture, “New (NOT Improved!) Teachers on TV: Childish, Churlish, Vulgar, Burned Out, and Incompetent,” Louisiana State University (November 2, 2017)

Book Companion Projects

  • Collaborated with digital humanities specialists at ZSR to produce a companion site featuring interviews with contributors to The Sitcom Reader: America Re- viewed, Still Skewed that are available for class use and to the public through a creative commons license
  • With funding from an Archie Grant, produced companion sites for The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies and Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television

Documentary Films

  • Documentaries, including Living in the Overlap (2014) and Queer Knitter in the Queen City (2015), have been screened at festivals across the country and abroad
  • The former has been distributed to public television stations across the United States by the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and won audience awards at Inside Out in Toronto and ReelQ in Pittsburgh, won a juried award for documentary short at Reeling32 in Chicago, was selected to screen at World Pride, and was shortlisted for the Iris Prize in Wales.
  • Martha in Lattimore (2008) was distributed by NETA, and the most significant festival screenings for the film were the Documentary and Disability Festival in Athens, Greece and SILVERDOCS.
Mary M. Dalton © 2015