Instructor's biography

David Bulla


David Bulla, a doctoral student and teaching assistant at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications, focuses his research on the history of U.S. journalism. His dissertation explores suppression of the press in Indiana during the Civil War. Other research interests include sports communication, scholastic journalism and literary nonfiction. Bulla earned his B.A. in English from UNC at Greensboro and his M.A. in journalism from Indiana University. He has worked for the Greensboro News & Record, Durham Sun, Winston-Salem Chronicle, Black College Sports Review and Peegs.com. He won sports journalism awards from the National Newspaper Publishers Association and the N.C. Press Association in 1986-87; was vice president of the N.C. Scholastic Media Association in 1999; won the Frances Wilhoit Award for research at Indiana University in 2001; had the outstanding student research paper in 2002 for the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; and was named the top teaching assistant for UF's College of Journalism and Communications and honored as a top teaching assistant for the university in 2002-03. Bulla teaches introductory media writing, literary journalism and sports writing. He is married to journalist Kalpana Ramgopal, a designer for the Lakeland Ledger.




MMC 2100
Writing for Mass Communication
University of Florida
College of Journalism and Communications
Weimer Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
Percy23@aol.com
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