Joe Scott-Coe

Jo Scott-Coe is a tenured professor of English & Media Studies at Riverside City College. Her third book, Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman (University of Texas Press), received a 2025 publication award from the Conservation Society of San Antonio.  

Her essays on intersections of public-private violence have been published widely for general as well as academic audiences, appearing in TIME, Salon, Catapult, The Los Angeles Times, American Studies Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, Talking Writing, Pacific Coast Philology, The Press-Enterprise, and many other venues.