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Dennis Gildea
Associate Professor of Communications
B.A., Villanova University, 1966
Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Penn State University, 1988
Dr. Gildea has been at Springfield College since 1994. He spent 14 years as a reporter, writing sports, general assignment news stories, features, and columns. He teaches Introduction to Journalism; Introduction to Mass Communication; the Literature of Journalism; the Press in America; the Muckrakers; Sports, Gambling, and the Media; Sports Information; and the Athlete in Literature.
Currently, he is researching and writing about the lives and works of W.O McGeehan, sports editor and columnist for the New York Herald Tribune in the 1920s and early 1930s, and his wife, journalist and playwright Sophie Treadwell. His research has been published in American Journalism, The Colby Quarterly, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and the International Ski History Congress Collected Papers, 2002, a collection of papers presented at a ski history conference held in conjunction with the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Updated: 10/16/2003
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