mckay jenkins

Cornelius A. Tilghman Professor of English
Journalism; 20th-Century American Literature
Office: 040 Memorial Hall
Phone: (302) 831-4869
E-Mail: mckay@udel.edu
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In the News:"Cultures clash in grisly 'Bloody Falls'," USAToday, January 19, 2005.
"UD writers to help soldiers record their stories," UDaily, May 11, 2004.
"Operation Homecoming," Voice of America, April 28, 2004

Professor McKay Jenkins is a journalist, nonfiction writer, and scholar of American studies, specializing in environmental studies and the history, journalism, and literature of race relations and social justice. He has a B.A. in English from Amherst College (1985), a Masters in journalism from Columbia University (1987), and a PhD in English from Princeton (1996). A former staff writer for the Atlanta Constitution, he is the author of The South in Black and White: Race, Sex and Literature in the 1940s (University of North Carolina Press, 1999); The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone (Random House, 2000); The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the US Army's 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler's Europe (Random House, 2003); and Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collison of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913 (Random House, 2005). He is also the editor of The Peter Matthiessen Reader(Vintage, 2000). He is currently at work on a book about toxic chemicals. A winner of the college Excellence in Teaching Award, he currently teaches classes in nonfiction writing, nature writing, the journalism of genocide, the journalism of terrorism, and twentieth century American literature.