Contributor

Mary Dalton

Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University

Mary Dalton, a communication professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., is the co-author of “Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television” (with Laura R. Linder) and “The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies.” She has also tracked the history of the situation comedy in her edited volume The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. Dalton has commented on movies, television, Hollywood trends and pop culture for USA Today, Yahoo!, the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio and dozens of other media outlets.