Justin Catanoso is a professor of Journalism and Associate Professor of the Practice at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He teaches a variety of reporting classes and an editing class. He is the program director, which is a minor within the English Department, and serves as adviser to the student newspaper. He is a regular contributor to Mongabay.

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Professor of the Practice

Contact

Office: C313 Tribble Hall

Phone: (336) 758-3914

Email: catanojj@wfu.edu

Degree

MA Wake Forest University

BA Penn State

Areas of Interest

Reporting, writing and editing

Regional economic development and commentary

Travel writing

Courses Taught at Wake Forest

Jou 272 Editing

Jou 282 Investigative reporting

Jou 284 Magazine writing

Eng 110 Composition

Selected Publications

My Cousin the Saint, A Search for Faith, Family, and Miracles (William Morrow/HarperCollins). North American release May 2008; paperback release through Harper Perennial, June 2009.

“Last Dive on Steel Pier,” The New York Times, commentary, Oct. 15, 2006.

“A Saint in the Family” Ambassador, a quarterly publication of the National Italian American Foundation, Spring 2006.

“Our cousin, the saint,” National Public Radio commentary, Morning Edition, Oct. 21, 2005

“A Saint in our Family,” Catholic Digest, November 2005.

“Miracles Happen: A writer finds he’s blessed in more ways than one when he meets his family in Italy,” Attaché magazine, June 2004

Additional Resources

Mr. Catanoso’s website