Linda Claire Steiner (born January 3, 1950)[1] is a professor at Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland.

[4] Steiner earned her degree from Smith College,[2] and her Ph.D. (1979) from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

[5] Her 1979 doctoral thesis, The women's suffrage press, 1850-1900: a cultural analysis can be found here.

Steiner was previously professor and department chair at Rutgers University.

She was also the president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2011-2012.