Courses:
Professor Connery currently teaches Literary Journalism, Mass Communication and Society, and Media Ethics.

Education:
B.A., M.A., Ohio State University
Ph.D., Brown University

Professional experience:
Reporter and editor, the Associated Press, the New London (Conn.) Day, the Westerly (R.I.) Sun and the Spectator newspapers of Columbus, Ohio.

Scholarship and service:
Professor Connery is an authority on the history, nature and practice of literary journalism, and he edited and wrote A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism in 1992.  More recently, he co-authored Writing Across the Media, an introductory textbook.  He has been book review editor of American Journalism, the journal of the American Journalism Historians Association, and served as president of that association. He is also a past president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. 

At UST:
Professor Connery joined UST in 1982.  He was dean of UST's College of Arts & Sciences for nine years.