About

Hi. My name is Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, but everybody calls me Fitz.

I’m an Assistant Professor of Humanities and General Education at Regis College in Weston, MA. I’m the author of How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists, a re-consideration of the genre of literary journalism with a focus on the role that women writers played in its nineteenth century origins, and how that influence shaped the genre as it evolved into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. You can read more about it here.

My research fields include literary journalism, media studies, American studies, religion, and literary history. I’m a collaborator on the Viral Texts Project and former research assistant with the Women Writers Project. 

I’ve published articles and essays in publications such as The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and others. Links to some of those are here.

In 2013, Bondfire Books published my first book titled Not Your Mother’s Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better. You can read more about the book here.

I earned my PhD in English from Northeastern University and I’ve taught writing and journalism at several colleges and universities in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey.

In 2020, I contributed to a weekly newsletter called “…in Progress.” It’s mostly dormant now, but you can read and subscribe here.

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