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Bob Batchelor is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University. He is also a member of the Editorial Review Board of The Journal of Popular Culture and The Journal of American Culture.
A noted scholar of popular culture in the United States, Bob has authored or edited the books: The 1900s (Greenwood, 2002); Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business (The Ohio State University Press, 2004); Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game and Beyond (Haworth, 2005); Literary Cash: Unauthorized Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash (BenBella, 2006; The 1980s (Greenwood, 2007); The 2000s (Greenwood, 2008); and the four-volume reference collection American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade (Greenwood, 2009).
Bob has published more than 500 articles and essays across a variety of platforms, including magazines, reference works, and Web sites, including the Dictionary of American History; Inside Business magazine; PopMatters.com; The American Prospect Online, and Public Relations Review.
Prior to joining USF, Bob spent a decade working in corporate communications for a number of large companies, including Ernst & Young, Fleishman-Hillard, and Bank of America. He is an internal communications specialist, focusing on executive communications and technology. Bob served as Senior Writer on the 2001 PRSA Silver Anvil winning team in B2B Marketing for Documentum (now part of EMC). He has also taught at Neumann College and Cleveland State University.
Bob graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor’s degree in history, philosophy and political science. He received a master’s degree in American History from Kent State University. His doctorate is in English Literature from the University of South Florida, where he studied under Phillip Sipiora. Bob's dissertation is "Running Toward the Apocalypse: John Updike's New America," a study of symbolic interactionism, reception, and popular culture as they relate to Updike and his recent novel Terrorist.