Barbara Feinman Todd is the Journalism Director in Georgetown University’s English Department where she has taught since 1992. She is the founding associate dean of Georgetown University’s MPS in Journalism program. She also serves as co-director of the Pearl Project and is the co-author of the January, 2011 publication, “The Truth Left Behind: Inside the Kidnapping and Murder of Daniel Pearl.”
In the summer of 2011, she and her Pearl Project co-director, Asra Nomani, received the Washington Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Distinguished Service Award. In 2008, they received first place in the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication’s Best Practices in Teaching of Information Gathering Competition.
Beginning in 1982, Barbara has worked in Washington as a ghostwriter, editor or researcher for senators, journalists, and business leaders on several high-profile books including the following books:
Bob Woodward’s VEIL (Simon & Schuster, 1987)
Carl Bernstein’s Loyalties (Simon & Schuster, 1989)
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky’s A Woman’s Place: The Freshmen Women Who Changed the Face of Congress (Crown Publishers, 1994)
Former Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee’s A Good Life (Simon & Schuster, 1994)
Palestinian spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi’s This Side of Peace (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s It Takes A Village (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey’s When I Was A Young Man (Harcourt, 2002)
Entrepreneur Byrne Murphy’s Le Deal: How a Young American, in Business, in Love, and in Over His Head, Kick-Started a Multibillion Dollar Industry in Europe (St. Martin’s Press, 2008).
She has a degree in writing from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in English from Georgetown University. She has also taught writing at Johns Hopkins University. Her own work has appeared in many publications including The Washington Post, Glamour, The Writer’s Chronicle and on National Public Radio.
Dennis Todd is a specialist in eighteenth-century American and British literature and culture. Selected publications include Imagining Monsters (University of Chicago, 1995) and numerous articles on Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Hogarth, John Arbuthnot, and early science. He has co-edited Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture (University of Delaware, 2001). In 1993 he was awarded the Clifford Prize by the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies for his work on Swift; the Clifford Prize is awarded for the best article of the year in eighteenth-century studies in literature and culture. His latest book, Defoe’s America, was released in July, 2010 by Cambridge University Press. The book is an exploration of Daniel Defoe’s novels and indentured servitude in America. He is at work on his next project on the life of William Byrd, an early Virginia plantation owner.
Dennis Todd is a Full Professor of English at Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University and B.A. from the University of California at Riverside. He has taught writing for nearly forty years.
You can read about his books here:
http://english.georgetown.edu/200565.html
http://www.erinoconnor.org/reviews/todd.shtml
http://www.powells.com/biblio/0226805557?&PID=33286
http://www.themillions.com/2008_07_01_themillions_archive.html
