Laura R. Linder earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Mass Communication and her M.A. and B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her teaching experience includes twelve years at a small college in New York State, seven years at UNCG, and seven years at N.C. A&T State University, a historically black university in Greensboro, North Carolina. In addition, she has worked as a metro clerk for The Charlotte Observer; production coordinator for WFMY-TV2, a CBS affiliate; managing editor for Carolina Film and Southeast Film, trade magazines; and assistant manager at the Janus Theaters film complex in Greensboro. She is co-author (with Mary Dalton) of Teacher TV: 70 Years of Teachers on Television, which covers seven decades of television teachers. In addition, she is co-editor (also with Mary Dalton) of The Sitcom Reader: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed; Screen Lessons: What We have Learned from Teachers on Television and in the Movies; and Teachers, Teaching, and Media: Original Essays about Educators in Popular Culture. Her first book, Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox, was translated into Japanese.
