Brian Carroll, Ph.D. 100 Laughlin Hall Berry College Mount Berry, GA  30149 brief bio | "hello!" | blog

phone: 706.368.6944 fax: 706.802.6738 email: bc at berry.edu on the world wide web: cubanxgiants.berry.edu

Welcome! Greetings from Mount Berry, Georgia. I'm a professor in the Communication Department at Berry College. My research interests include baseball and the black press, digital media, communication law and Shakespeare. Among the courses I teach are media law, digital storytelling, visual rhetoric, sports communication and sports journalism.

NEWS

Now available wherever fine books are sold, Dr. Carroll's Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle: Finding English National Identity in the Plays. Published in 2022 by McFarland & Co. in North Carolina.

Coming in 2025 is the sixth edition of Dr. Carroll's textbook for Writing & Editing for Digital Media, with a new chapter on generatie artificial intelligence.

Check out his second book on the Black press and the Negro leagues, A Devil's Bargain, also from Routledge.

Berry Communication students spent a month in Galway, Ireland this past summer doing international multimedia journalism. Their Project Galway stories are available at Viking Fusion.

In October, Dr. Carroll presented, "The Answer Man, the Lawyer, and the Informant: Private Policing and Publicity in Black America, 1920-1960," to the American Journalism Historians Assn. national convention in Memphis.

In November, Dr. Carroll presented, "Geography and Tradition: Finding College Football's Lost Paradise in Newspaper Coverage, 1869-1879," to the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.