NED STUCKEY-FRENCH, Assistant Professor, B. A., magna cum laude, Harvard College (1972), M.A., Brown University (1992), Ph. D., University of Iowa (1997). Dr. Stuckey-French specializes in the personal essay and modern American literature and culture, especially magazine culture. His study of magazine culture and class construction entitled The American Essay in the American Century is forthcoming from the University of Missouri Press. He is also editing (with Carl Klaus) a collection of essays on the essay, which includes work from Montaigne to the present, and it will appear from the University of Iowa Press.

His reviews and critical work have appeared in journals such as American Literature, The CEA Critic, Modern Fiction Studies, Fourth Genre, culturefront, and The Iowa Review, and in The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of the Essay.

He also writes creative nonfiction and is the book review editor for the journal Fourth Genre. His essays, which have appeared in magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Pinch, and Walking Magazine, have been listed three times among the notable essays in the Best American Essays series. He is working on a memoir of his ten years as a trade union organizer in a Boston hospital.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011).
• Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time (forthcoming, University of Iowa Press, March, 2012).
• Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, 8th Ed. (New York: Longman, 2010). Co-Author.

Articles:

• "Starting with Dialogue," in NOW WRITE! NONFICTION: Writing Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers, ed. Sherry Ellis (Tarcher/Penguin, 2009).
• "The Odd Couple: Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx." culturefront (Winter 1998).
• "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).
• "'An Essay on Virginia': William Carlos Williams and the Modern(ist) Essay." American Literature (March 1998).

Essays:

• "The Edsel Farm" (personal essay), Why We're Here: New York Essayists on Living Upstate (Colgate U P, 2010).
• "Good Fences" (personal essay), Guernica (July 2009), available at http://www.guernicamag.com/features/1097/good_fences. Listed among the Notable Essays of the Year in Best American Essays, 2009. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
• "South Side" (personal essay), The Pinch (2006). Listed among the Notable Essays of the Year in Best American Essays, 2007. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
• "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. Reprinted in The Walker Within: Forty-five Stories of Motivation and Inspiration for Walkers, ed. John Stark (Lyons Press: New York, 2000).

AWARDS

• Robert Irwin Award for Excellence in Teaching. 1994.