Profile:

Nancy Brendlinger’s teaching areas include magazine and news writing, media and society and international journalism. She worked as a farm editor, area news editor, reporter and photographer for the Muscatine Journal (IA) and as an editor and writer for several newsletters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked for Peace Corps, USAID and as a Fulbright Scholar in Chad, Senegal, Indonesia, Slovakia and Croatia, and as an exchange teacher in China. She is now engaged in an environmental communication/ cultural exchange project among Tunisia, Algeria and the United States. Outside of the School of Communication Studies, she is the associate director of Global Village and serves on the advisory boards for the International Studies Program and the Peace and Conflict Studies minor.

Education:

The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. in journalism, 1990
University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S. in agricultural journalism, 1984
Iowa State University, B.S. in journalism and sociology, 1975

Classes:

Basic reporting, public affairs reporting, feature writing, magazine writing, international media,  and journalism and the movies. Outside of the journalism department, she teaches Introduction to International Studies.