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Dr. Bryan Berry
 
 
 

Assistant Professor Mass Communication

Office : S410
Phone: 815-740-3683
Email: bberry@stfrancis.edu
Education
Dr. Bryan Berry received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Michigan in 1992. His dissertation was entitled "Edmund Spenser's Rhetorical and Semiotic Strategies amid Sixteenth-Century Religious Controversies." Earlier Bryan received his B.A. in English from Columbia University in New York City.
Teaching
Dr. Berry teaches writing across the media, public relations, and Core III (Great Books - Foundations of Western Thought) and serves as advisor for the Encounter, the student newspaper at the University of St. Francis. Earlier Bryan taught communications, literature, and writing at Wheeling Jesuit University (Wheeling, W. Va.), the University of California (Davis), and the University of Michigan. His research interests include rhetoric, business and business communication, journalism, the Catholic imagination, religious controversy, and American literature (particularly Henry James and Flannery O'Connor) and the literature of the English Renaissance.
Professional

Dr. Berry served as chief editor of Iron Age/New Steel magazine (based in Oak Brook, IL.) from 1993 to 2001; earlier he served as Detroit Editor for the magazine.He also was Assistant Editor and Copy Editor for Popular Science magazine (New York City).

Dr. Berry has won editorial awards for his magazine articles on trade and the auto, defense, and steel industries from the Detroit Press Club Foundation, Cahners and Chilton publishing companies, the Aviation/Space Writers Assn., and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His editorials for New Steel won a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism editorial award from American Business Media.