NED STUCKEY-FRENCH, Assistant Professor, B. A., magna cum laude, Harvard College (1972), M.A., Brown University (1992), Ph. D., University of Iowa (1997), specializes in creative non-fiction writing and modern American literature and culture. He is working on two book-length projects-a memoir of his ten years as a trade union organizer in a Boston hospital and a study of the personal essay in America between the two world wars. Courses he has taught recently include "Genrebusters: American Book-length Nonfiction," "The Literature and Culture of 1968," and "The American Personal Essay."
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- "Bioterror-Then and Now," In These Times (October 26, 2001). http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/26/feature4.shtml
- "Why Does the Essay Keep Dying, and What Do Little Lord Fauntleroy and the Lavender-Scented Little Old Lady Have to Do with It?" The CEA Critic, (Winter and Spring/Summer 1999).
- "The Odd Couple: Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx." culturefront (Winter 1998).
- "'An Essay on Virginia': William Carlos Williams and the Modern(ist) Essay." American Literature (March 1998). http://www.jstor.org/view/00029831/di014883/01p0005v/0
- Entries on Christopher Columbus, "Prayer of Columbus," and "A Thought of Columbus," The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. Ed. J. R. LeMaster and Donald Kummings. New York: Garland, 1998.
- Entries on the Modern American Essay, the Humorous Essay, W.E.B. Du Bois, Agnes Repplier, Scott Russell Sanders, and William H. Gass, The Encyclopedia of the Essay. Ed. Tracy Chevalier. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
- "An Interview with Richard Ford." Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews with Contemporary Writers. Ed. Farhat Iftekharuddin, Mary Rohrberger and Maurice Lee. Oxford: U of Mississippi P, 1997.
- "Termites" (personal essay). The Missouri Review. 19.2 (September 1996): 67-82. Listed among the Notable Essays of the Year in Best American Essays, 1997. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
- "You Can Go Home Again" (personal essay), Walking Magazine (Jan./Feb. 1995): 100. Rpt. in The Walker Within, ed. John Stark (Lyons Press: New York, 2000).
