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Harrington School of Communication and Media

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Michael Keith

Michael Keith

Author and Professor of Communication, Boston College
Newton, MA

Michael C. Keith, Ph.D., is a member of the Communication Department at Boston College. He is the author of over 20 books on electronic media, including Talking Radio, Voices in the Purple Haze, Radio Cultures, Sounds in the Dark, and the classic textbook The Radio Station.

In addition, he coauthored Waves of Rancor, The Quieted Voice, The Broadcast Century, Global Broadcasting Systems, and Dirty Discourse with Robert Hilliard; Queer Airwaves with Phylis Johnson; Sounds of Change with Christopher Sterling; and Norman Corwin's 'One World Flight' with Mary Ann Watson.

The recipient of numerous awards, Keith is also the author of dozens of journal articles and short stories, and has served in a variety of editorial positions. In addition, he is the author of a critically acclaimed memoir The Next Better Place; a young adult novel, Life is Falling Sideways; and two story anthologies, And Through the Trembling Air and Hoag's Object.