Curriculum Vitae

Ned C Stuckey-French

May 24, 2018

General Information

University address:	English
College of Arts and Sciences
WILLIAMS BUILDING 0405
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1580
Phone: 850 553-9549; Fax: 850 644-0811

E-mail address:	NSTUCKEY-FRENCH@FSU.EDU

Web site:	http://nedstuckeyfrench.com/

Professional Preparation

1997	PhD, University Of Iowa. Major: English. Modern American Literature/Personal Essay. Supervisor: Prof. Tom Lutz. 

Ned Stuckey-French. (1997). Hitler and Hogs: The Personal Essay and American Culture Between the Two World Wars. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University Of Iowa. 

1997	MA, Brown University. Major: English. Novel Theory/Modern American Literature. Supervisor: Prof. Brent Harold. 

Ned Stuckey-French. (1997). The Functions of Culture and Literature: Issues in Marxist Criticism. Unpublished master's thesis, Brown University. 

1972	BA, Harvard College. Major: English. Supervisor: Prof. Warner Berthoff. magna cum laude. 

Ned Stuckey-French. (1972). The Novel as a Constructed Object or an Imagined Existence: Implementation of Theory in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano and William H. Gass's Omensetter's Luck. Unpublished bachelor's thesis, Harvard College. 

Professional Experience

2012–present	Associate Professor, Department of English, Florida State University. 

2005–2012	Assistant Professor, English, Florida State University. 

1999–2005	Assistant In, English, Florida State University. 

Language Proficiency

French - rudimentary in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.

Visiting Professorship(s)

2013	Adjunct Professor, MFA Program in Writing, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY. 

1998–1999	Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University. 

1998	Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa. 

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) Summer Grant, Council on Research and Creativity (2017). ($14,000). 
Arts & Humanities Program Enhancement Award, Council on Research & Creativity, Florida State University (2011). ($6,500). 
First-Year Assistant Professor Grant, Florida State University (2006). ($15,000). 
Personal Development Grant, Florida State University (2005). 
Robert Irwin Award for Excellence in Teaching, General Education in Literature Program, The University of Iowa (1994). 

Fellowship(s)

Fellow, Lillian E. Smith Center for the Arts (2000–2008).
Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowship, Graduate College, The University of Iowa (1995–1996).
Fellowship, Rural Teachers of English, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury, VT (1989).

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

American Studies Association 
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) 

Teaching

Courses Taught

Issues in Publishing (ENG4834)
Reading, Writing, and Speaking in the Digital Age (IFS2030)
Non-Fiction Essay Craft WS (ENG5906)
What is a Text? (ENG4815)
Advanced Writing and Editing (ENC4404)
Article and Essay Workshop (ENC5317)
Directed Readings (ENG6907)
Advanced Article and Essay Workshop (ENC4311)
Studies in Popular Culture (LIT5309)
The Literary Expression of American Popular Culture (LIT4304)
Advanced Seminar in English (ENG4938)
FIG section (IFS2030)
Honors (IFS2030)
Topics in English (ENG5933)
Directed Individual Study (ENG4905)
Senior Seminar in Literature (ENG4934)
Tutorial in English (ENG5998)
Introduction to Editing and Publishing (ENC5216)
Directed Individual Study (ENG5906)
Honors Thesis (ENG4936)
Major Figures in American Literature (AML3311)
The 20th-Century American Novel (AML4121)
Lecture Series in American Problems (AMS3932)
Changing Concepts of the American Character (AMS3310)
American Authors Since 1875 (AML3041)
Introduction to the Short Story (LIT2020)
Internship in Editing (ENC4942)
Internship in Editing (ENC5945)
Editing: Manuscripts, Documents, Reports (ENC5216)
Studies in English (ENG4932)
American Authors Since 1875 (AML3024)
Honors Work (ENG4996)

New Course Development

Reading, Writing, and Speaking in the Digital Age (2015)

Curriculum Development

Editing, Writing and Media Track, Department of English, Florida State University (2007)
Certificate Program in Publishing and Editing, Department of English, Florida State University (2005)

Doctoral Committee Chair

Neary, D. M., doctoral student. 

Doctoral Committee Member

Monroe, R. E., graduate. (2017).
Collier, J. T., graduate. (2017).
Hoang, H. K., graduate. (2016).
Cassorla, L. F., graduate. (2015).
Wang, M., graduate. (2015).
Ortolano, S., graduate. (2013).
Cooper, M. P., graduate. (2013).
Yazbec, W. M., graduate. (2012).
Speller, C. A., graduate. (2010).
Simonds, S. I., graduate. (2010).
Neff, C., graduate. (2010).
Cooper, T. M., graduate. (2009).
Altmaier, C. C., doctoral candidate. 
Keller, R. A., doctoral candidate. 
McKinnie, B. E., doctoral candidate. 
Soppe, R. E., doctoral candidate. 
Weinstein, A., doctoral candidate. 
Liu, J., doctoral candidate. 

Master's Committee Chair

Bettinger, J. S., graduate. (2009). Storybook Tallahassee: Memories of My Ancestry. 
Kiely, L., graduate. (2007). Foucault and the Strategies of Resistance in the New Journalism of Capote, Wolfe, and Kovic. 
Dawson, J., graduate. (2006). Where the Cottonwoods Grow. 

Master's Committee Cochair

McKelvey, A., graduate. (2005). Laughter and Hope and a Sock in the Eye. 

Master's Committee Member

Sherwin, Michelle-Taylor, graduate. (2017).
Candela Baptiste, M. J., graduate. (2016).
Faison, E., graduate. (2016).
Liu, J., graduate. (2014).
Wolfgang-Smith, O., graduate. (2014).
Bonner, N. J., graduate. (2013).
Overstreet, R. J., graduate. (2013).
Haney, P. D., graduate. (2012).
Crawford, J. F., graduate. (2011).
Hanway, J. D., graduate. (2011).
Nobles, K. L., graduate. (2009).
Caputo, J., graduate. (2008).
O'Brien Lee, S., graduate. (2008).
Smith-Seetachitt, B., graduate. (2008).
Yanes, N., graduate. (2008).
Kelley, W. D., graduate. (2007).
Hawkins, J., graduate. (2006).
Whatley, C., graduate. (2006).
Croley, M., graduate. (2005).
Kantrowitz, D., graduate. (2005).
Lari, J., graduate. (2005).
Martin, Z., graduate. (2005).
Salerno, A., graduate. (2005).
Welch, S., graduate. (2005).
Berson, T., graduate. (2004).
Smith, N., graduate. (2004).
Whittemore, T., graduate. (2004).
Youngblood, T., graduate. (2004).
Mirabella, M. A., graduate. (2003).
Hamlin, S., graduate. (2002).
Boudreaux, D., student. 
Duncan, L. K., student. 
Gonzalez, L., student. 

Bachelor's Committee Chair

Alsina, L., graduate. (2018).
Cleveland, E., graduate. (2018).
Zent, C. R., graduate. (2015).
Ostermeyer, E., graduate. (2013).
Salamanca, V., graduate. (2013).
Hall, M., graduate. (2012).
Parker, A., graduate. (2011).
Lazarus, I., graduate. (2010).

Bachelor's Committee Member

McShane, M., graduate. (2016).
Penico, M., graduate. (2016).
Barrow, J., graduate. (2006).

Additional Teaching Not Reported Elsewhere

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2002–2010). Workshops in Essay Writing. Iowa Summer Writing Festival. 

Research and Original Creative Work

Program of Research and/or Focus of Original Creative Work

Investigate the form of the personal essay and the role the essay has played and continues to play in modern American culture, especially middle-class culture. Examine the effects of different text technologies (e.g., magazines, newspapers, book collections, anthologies, video, new media) on the development of the personal essay. 

Publications

Invited Journal Articles

Stuckey-French, N. (2017). In Search of the First Person Singular. New Ohio Review, 22, 166-170.

Stuckey-French, N. (2016). The Anthologies of John D'Agata. Los Angeles Review of Books, 1-10. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/anthologies-john-dagata/

Stuckey-French, N. (2015). A Real World Education: Revisiting Studs Terkel's Working. Creative Nonfiction, 57, 1-2. Retrieved from https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/real-world-education

Stuckey-French, N. (2015). Best American Essays 1987. Essay Daily, 1-10. Retrieved from http://www.essaydaily.org/2015/12/bae-1997-as-read-by-ned-stuckey-french.html

Stuckey-French, N. (2015). Queer Blood. Los Angeles Review of Books, 1-10. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/queer-blood

Stuckey-French, N. (2014). A Writing Life [Profile of Janet Burroway]. Forum: The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, Summer, 32-35.

Stuckey-French, N. (2014). In the Saddle. Iron Horse Review, 16, 36-37.

Stuckey-French, N. (2014). Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing. Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, 1, 1-10. Retrieved from http://www.assayjournal.com/11stuckeyfrench.html

Stuckey-French, N. (2013). An Essay on the Context of Essays. The Essay Review, 1, 41 – 51. Retrieved from http://theessayreview.org/uploads/TheEssayReviewVolume1Issue1.pdf

Stuckey-French, N. (2013). Essays and Encyclopedias. Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction, 1-10. Retrieved from http://bendinggenre.com/2013/11/19/essays-and-encyclopedias-ned-stuckey-french/

Stuckey-French, N. (2013). Time for a New Essay: Eric Walrond's 'On Being Black.'. Essay Daily, 1-10. Retrieved from http://www.essaydaily.org/2013/11/eric-walrond-time-for-new-essay-eric.html

Stuckey-French, N. (2012). Dear John, I'm Afraid It's Over…". Brevity Blog, 1-10. Retrieved from http://brevity.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/dear-john-im-afraid-it-is-over/

Stuckey-French, N. (2012). 'Don't Be Cruel': An Argument for Elvis. The Normal School, 7 – 11. Retrieved from http://blog.longreads.com/post/longreads-member-pick-december-5-2013/

Stuckey-French, N. (2011). Expanding the Essay Canon, One Decade at a Time. Creative Nonfiction, 43, 7-10. Retrieved from https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/expanding-essay-canon-one-decade-time

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011). 'My Name is Ned and I'm an Addict': Facebook and the Personal Essay. TriQuarterly Online, Winter-Spring, 1-1. Retrieved from http://triquarterly.org/views/%E2%80%9Cmy-name-ned-and-i%E2%80%99m-addict%E2%80%9D-facebook-and-personal-essay

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011). Nightmares. New South, 4.2, 60-62.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1976). Against the Grain: Theory and Practice in the Work of William H. Gass with a William H. Gass Bibliography. Iowa Review, 7, 96-107.

Refereed Journal Articles

Stuckey-French, N. C. (in press). Expanding the Essay Canon, One Decade at a Time. Creative Nonfiction, 7-10 pages.

Stuckey-French, N., & Miller, B. J. (2015). In Missouri, the Downfall of a Business-Minded President. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1-1.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011). Meeting Bobby Kennedy. Cedars, 1-1. Retrieved from http://cedars167.blogspot.com/2011/09/nonfiction-by-ned-stuckey-french.html#tips

Stuckey-French, N. (2011). The Essay as Red-Headed Stepchild. Brevity Blog, 1-10. Retrieved from http://brevity.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/the-essay-as-red-headed-stepchild/

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011). Thank You, Jon Gnagy. middlebrow magazine, 4, 1-1. Retrieved from https://longreads.com/2016/11/22/thank-you-jon-gnagy-an-appreciation-of-a-predecessor-to-bob-ross/#more-41670

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2009). Good Fences. Guernica, July 2009, 1-1. Retrieved from http://www.guernicamag.com/features/1097/good_fences/

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2006). South Side. The Pinch, 26.2, 96-106.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2001). Bioterror-Then and Now. In These Times, 25-26, 21 – 23. Retrieved from http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/26/feature4.shtml

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1999). The Odd Couple: Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx. culturefront, 7.4, 25-27, 85-88. Retrieved from http://blog.longreads.com/2014/04/30/the-odd-couple-alexander-woollcott-and-harpo-our-longreads-member-pick/

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1999). 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, 61.2-3, 30 – 36.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1998). 'An Essay on Virginia': William Carlos Williams and the Modern(ist) Essay. American Literature, 70.1, 97-130.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1996). Termites. Missouri Review, 19.2, 67-82.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1995). You Can Go Home Again. Walking Magazine, 100.

Refereed Books

Stuckey-French, N., Burroway, J., & Stuckey-French, E. (2014). Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, 9th ed. New York: Pearson. 

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011). The American Essay in the American Century. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 

Burroway, J., Stuckey-French, E., & Stuckey-French, N. C. (2010). Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, 8th Ed. New York: Longman. 

Burroway, Janet (Author), Stuckey-French, Elizabeth (Author), & Stuckey-French, N. C. (Assistant Editor). (2007). Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, 7th Ed. New York: Longman. 

Edited Books

Stuckey-French, N., & Brady, M. (Eds.). (2014). Why We Do What We Do: Essays by Le Moyne College Faculty. Syracuse: LeMoyne. 

Klaus, C., & Stuckey-French, N. C. (Eds.). (2012). Essayists on the Essay: From Montaigne to Our Time. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 

Invited Book Chapters

Stuckey-French, N. (contract). The Next Anthology. Manuscript under contract for publication, Iowa City: U of Iowa P. 

Stuckey-French, N. (in press). Creative Nonfiction and the Lyric Essay: The American Essay in the Twenty-First Century. In Thomas Karshan, & Kathryn Murphy (Eds.), Of Essays (1-10 pages). Oxford: Oxford U P. 

Stuckey-French, N. (2018). Emerson the Essayist in the American Canon. In Sean Meehan, & Mark Long (Eds.), Approaches to Teaching Emerson's Essays and Other Works (pp. 31-36). New York: Modern Language Association. 

Stuckey-French, N. (2018). Teaching the Personal Essay in the Digital Age. In Laura Gray-Rosendale (Ed.), Getting Personal: Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age (pp. 3-19). Albany: State University of New York. 

Stuckey-French, N. (2014). An Essayist's Guide to Research and Family Life. In Bruce Joshua Miller (Ed.), Curiosity's Cats: Essays on Research, or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Story (pp. 267-284). Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society. 

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2010). The Edsel Farm. In Robert Cowser, Jr. (Ed.), Why We're Here: New York Essayists on Living Upstate (pp. 106 – 119). Hamilton, NY: Colgate University Press. 

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2009). Starting with Dialogue. In Sherry Ellis (Ed.), NOW WRITE! NONFICTION: Writing Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers (pp. 236-39). Tarcher/Penguin. 

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1997). An Interview with Richard Ford. In Farhat Iftekharuddin, Mary Rohrberger, & Maurice Lee (Eds.), Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (pp. 107-122). Oxford: U of Mississippi P. 

Invited Encyclopedia Entries

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2003). Entry on Rogers E. M. Whitaker. In Kenneth T. Jackson, Karen E. Markoe and Arnold Markoe (Ed.), The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (Vol. 1). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1998). Entries on Christopher Columbus, Prayer of Columbus, and A Thought of Columbus. In J. R. LeMaster and Donald Kummings (Ed.), The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. New York: Garland. 

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1997). Entries on the Modern American Essay, the Humorous Essay, W.E.B. Du Bois, Agnes Repplier, Scott Russell Sanders, and William H. Gass. In Tracy Chevalier (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Essay. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 

Invited Reviews

Stuckey-French, N. (in press). Review of Christopher Tinson, Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s. Journal of American History, 1-2 pages.

Stuckey-French, N. (2018). A Mind Thinking: Review of Julija Šukys, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life Ona Šimatė and Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning. Fourth Genre, 20.1, 209-220.

Stuckey-French, N. (2017). Our Friend Phillip: Review of Phillip Lopate's American Scholar blog. Woven Tale Press, 1-10. Retrieved from http://www.thewoventalepress.net/2017/04/03/phillip-lopate/

Stuckey-French, N. (2017). Criminal: A Conversation and Review: Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir. Fourth Genre, 19.2, 191-199.

Stuckey-French, N. (2017). Lifeboat: Review of Kelly Grey Carlisle's We Are All Shipwrecks. Fourth Genre, 19.1, 213-218.

Stuckey-French, N. (2014). Object Lesson: Dinah Lenney and the Essayist's Dilemma: Review of Dinah Lenney's The Object Parade. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/object-lesson-dinah-lenney-essayists-dilemma

Stuckey-French, N. (2012). Review of Randi Saloman, Virginia Woolf's Essayism. Modernism/Modernity, 19.4, 818-820.

Stuckey-French, N. (2012). The Embarrassment of the Middle Class(es): Review essay of Daniel Horowitz, Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World; John Sbardellati, J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War; and Janet Carey Eldred, Literate Zeal: Gender and the Making of a New Yorker. TriQuarterly, 1-10. Retrieved from http://triquarterly.org/reviews/embarrassment-middle-classes-review-consuming-pleasures-daniel-horowitz-j-edgar-hoover-goes-

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2012). Review of Robert Vanderlan, Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas inside Henry Luce's Media Empire (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). Journal of American History, 1.

Stuckey-French, N. (2011). The Video Essay: A Sampling. American Book Review, 1-10.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2010). Review essay of John D'Agata, The Lost Origins of the Essay; Eileen Pollack, Creative Nonfiction: A Guide to Form, Content, and Style; Sue William Silverman, Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir; Robert Root, The Nonfictionist's Guide. Fourth Genre, 12.2, 179-83.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2006). Review of G. Douglas Atkins, Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth (Athens: U of Georgia P, 2005). Fourth Genre, 8.2, 157-60.

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1986). Review of Arthur Saltzman, The Fiction of William H. Gass: The Consolation of Language Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986). . Modern Fiction Studies, 32, 287-88.

Presentations

Invited Papers at Symposia

Stuckey-French, N. C. (accepted). The State of the Essay in the Publishing Marketplace. In Kim Dana Kupperman (Chair), In Praise of the Essay: Practice & Form. Symposium to be conducted at the meeting of Welcome Table Press/Fordham University, New York, NY. (National)

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2018). Teaching the Video Essay. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Tampa, FL. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2017). After the Renaissance: What's Next? Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Washington, DC. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2017). Saving the University of Missouri Press. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Washington, DC. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2016). The Video Essay: What Is It and What's Next? Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, ACLA, Cambridge, MA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2015). Five Reasons to Do Research. Paper presented at NonfictioNow Conference, U of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2015). Queer Blood: Capote's In Cold Blood at 50. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Minneapolis, MN. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2015). To Be Perfectly Honest. Paper presented at NonfictioNow Conference, U of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2013). Censoring Baldwin. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Boston, MA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2013). Is the Essay Middle-Aged? Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Boston, MA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2013). Writing and Marketing a Craft Book. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Boston, MA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2012). Our WPA, and Mine. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Chicago, IL. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2012). The Essay and Its Adjectives: Why 'Lyric'? Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Chicago, IL. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2011, February). "'My Name is Ned and I'm an Addict': Facebook and the Personal Essay. Status Update: The Personal Essay in the Age of Facebook. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Washington, DC. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2011, February). Scanning Context, Finding Essays." Moving Pictures, Moving Words: Essays in the Digital Age. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Washington, DC. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2010, November). Journalism vs. Lyricism – Can't We All Just Get Along?" NO Me Versus No, ME: Journalism and Creative Nonfiction. Paper presented at Bedell NonfictioNow Conference, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2010, November). Retrieving Eric Walrond's 'On Being Black.'" Read This: The Writer as Reader. Paper presented at Bedell NonfictioNow Conference, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2010, April). "Two Writers in the House." Never Enough Naptime: Writers With Small Children. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Denver, CO. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2009, February). "The Role of Reviews in the Development of the Fourth Genre." Creative in Form, Nonfiction in Content: Perspectives on the Possibilities of Literary Nonfiction. Paper presented at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, AWP, Chicago, IL. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2007, November). "Halloween with Carl." A Tribute to Carl Klaus. Paper presented at Bedell NonfictioNow Conference, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2007, November). "'Once More to the Lake': The Career of a Canonical Essay." Creating the New Nonfiction Canon. Paper presented at Bedell NonfictioNow Conference, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2007, February). Don't Be Cruel': An Argument for Elvis. Paper presented at Southern American Studies Association (SAMSA) Annual Conference, SAMSA, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. (Regional)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2007, January). Are Anthologies a Straight Jacket? Historicizing the Personal Essay. Paper presented at Florida Literary Arts Coalition (FLAC), FLAC, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (State)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2007, January). Neurotics (Writers) and Nit-Pickers (Editors) in Training: How FSU's Certificate in Publishing and Editing Helps Put Writing to Work in the Workplace. Paper presented at Florida Literary Arts Coalition (FLAC), FLAC, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (State)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2006, January). On the Job and in the Classroom: Learning About Publishing and Editing From FSU's Graduate Certificate Program. Paper presented at Florida Literary Arts Coalition (FLAC), FLAC, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (State)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2006, January). The Fine Line Between Fiction and Nonfiction. Paper presented at Florida Literary Arts Coalition (FLAC), FLAC, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (State)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 2005, November). "Firesides: The Site of the Essay." Essayists on the Essay. Paper presented at Bedell NonfictioNow Conference, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 1995, December). 'The Little Lord Fauntleroy Complex': Homophobia and the Genteel Essay. Paper presented at Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Meeting, MLA, Chicago, IL. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 1994, December). The Essay in the Context of Its Own 'Death'. Paper presented at College English Association Special Session at the MLA Annual Meeting, CEA/MLA, San Diego, CA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 1994, November). An Essay on An Essay on Virginia. Paper presented at Textual Regions and Regional Texts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 1992, October). Song, Passage, Prayer and Thought: Whitman and Columbus. Paper presented at Conference on Modern Literature: Columbus, the 'New World," and the Modern Imagination, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (presented 1992, March). On the Lives and Deaths of Animals: Barry Lopez and the Sentimental Tradition. Paper presented at Mid-American American Studies Association (MAASA), MAASA, Iowa City, IA. (Regional)

Invited Keynote and Plenary Presentations at Conferences

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2013). Defending the Essay with Context: White and Baldwin. Plenary presentation at Stalking the Essay Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (presented 2013). It Happened in Missouri. Plenary presentation at Association for the American Association of University Presses Annual Meeting, AAUP, Boston, MA. (National) Retrieved from http://vimeo.com/channels/aaup13/70338847

Invited Lectures and Readings of Original Work

Stuckey-French, N. (2017). Backyards. Delivered at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (2017). Backyards. Delivered at St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (2017). Nightmares. Delivered at Dove Tales Fundraiser, Lee's Place, Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. (2014). Nine Reasons to Do Research and a Note of Caution, and Edsel Farm. Delivered at University of Nebraska MFA in Writing Winter Residency, Omaha, NE. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (2013). Backyards. Delivered at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (2013). The Essayist and the Novelist: Two Writers and Two Genres in One House. Delivered at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (2013). What's an Essay and How Do I Write One? Delivered at University of Nebraska MFA in Writing Summer Residency, Omaha, NE. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (2012). Essayists on the Essay. Delivered at Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (2012). Getting Published: The Intersection of Personal and Scholarly Writing. Delivered at Le Moyne College Faculty Writing Retreat, Syracuse, NY. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011, November). Baldwin, Didion, Digitization, and the Future of the Essay. Delivered at American Studies Program, Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011, September). Pairs with Pens. Delivered at Atlanta Journal Constitution Decatur Book Festival, Atlanta, GA. (State)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011, April). Nightmares and Backyards. Delivered at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2011, March). 621 Reading Series. Delivered at Apalachee Review, Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. (2011). Baldwin, Didion, Digitization, and the Future of the Essay. Delivered at American Studies Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. (2011). The State of the Essay in the Publishing Marketplace. Delivered at In Praise of the Essay: Practice & Form. A Symposium sponsored by Welcome Table Press, in collaboration with Fordham University, New York, NY. (National)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2010, November). Jon Gnagy, the Book-of-the-Month Club, and the End of Middlebrow. Delivered at History of Text Technologies Program (HOTT) Colloquium, Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2010, September). "Edsel Farm." Reading. Delivered at North Woods Inn, Lake Placid Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Lake Placid, NY. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2010, September). "Edsel Farm." Reading. Delivered at Mysteries on Main Street, Johnstown, NY. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2010, September). The Essay and Place. Delivered at Colgate Humanities Colloquium. Department of English, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2006, November). Is the Essay Middlebrow? Delivered at Faculty Research Series. Department of English, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2005, July). "Meeting Bobby Kennedy." A Midsummer-Night's Reading. Delivered at The Lillian E. Smith Center for the Arts, Clayton, GA. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2002, December). "Meeting Bobby Kennedy." Anhinga Press Reading Series. Delivered at Anhinga Press, Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2000, March). 'Middlebrow' and American Studies. Delivered at U. S. Literature Discussion Group. Florida State University Department of English, Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2000, February). Why Does the Essay Keep Dying, and What Do Little Lord Fauntleroy and the Lavender-Scented Little Old Lady Have to Do with It? Delivered at Department of English, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1999, January). "Through the Sycamores." Reading. Delivered at Department of English, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1999, January). "Why Does the Essay Keep Dying?" Invited Lecture. Delivered at Department of English, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1998, October). "Mass General." Reading. Delivered at Irving Bacheller Society Induction Ceremony, Department of English, St. Lawrence, Canton, NY. (Local)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1996, June). Teaching Language Arts to the Gifted and Talented. Delivered at Blank-Belin National Center for Gifted and Talented Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. (State)

Stuckey-French, N. C. (1993, November). 'The Only English Critic': William H. Gass and Coleridge's Theory of Imagination. Delivered at Scholarly Exchange Program, Association of Graduate Students in English, Iowa City, IA. (Local)

Contracts and Grants

Contracts and Grants Funded

Stuckey-French, Ned C (PI). (May 2017–Aug 2017). COFRS:Radical Middlebrow. Funded by FSU CRC. (N/A). Total award $14,000. 

Stuckey-French, Ned C (PI). (May 2006–Aug 2006). FYAP_American Essay in the American Century. Funded by FSU CRC. Total award $15,000. 

Service

Florida State University

FSU University Service

Course Reviewer, Liberal Studies Curriculum (2016–present).

Member, Advisory Board, Center for Everyday Writing (2012–2014).

Reforming Undergraduate Curriculum, Liberal Studies Coordinating Committee (2012–2014).

FSU College Service

Member, Nominating Committee (English Department Chair) (2005–2006).

FSU Department Service

Mentoring Assistant Professor, Mentor (2015–present).

Director, Certificate Program in Publishing and Editing (2011–present).

Member, Editing, Writing and Media Review Committee (2017–2018).

Member, Evaluation Committee (2016–2017).

Member, Search Committee, Creative Writing (Prose) (2015–2016).

Organizer, "Moving Pictures, Moving Words." Colloquium on the Film and Video Essay (2014–2015).

Member, Evaluation Committee (2014–2015).

Organizer, "What Do You Hear?" Colloquium on American Popular Music (2012–2013).

At Large Member, Executive Committee (2012–2013).

Member, Editing, Writing and Media Review Committee (2011–2012).

Member, Evaluation Committee (2011–2012).

Secretary, Faculty of the Department of English (2008–2009).

Member, Undergraduate Committee (2006–2009).

Member, Ad hoc Committee on Creating a Third Track in Editing, Writing and Media (2007–2008).

Member, Editing and Publications Committee (2002–2008).

Co-chair, Gifts & Courtesies (2006–2007).

Member, Search Committee (19th Century American Literature) (2006–2007).

Member, Literature Committee (2005–2007).

Secretary, Faculty of the Department of English (2005–2006).

Member, Search Committee (Creative Nonfiction) (2005–2006).

FSU Program Service

Director, Certificate in Publishing and Editing Program (2011–present).

The Profession

Editor for Refereed Journals

Editorial Board, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies (2014–present).

Book Review Editor, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, Michigan State U P, East Lansing, MI (2008–present).

Series Editor for Books

Crux: The Georgia Series for Literary Nonfiction, U of Georgia Press (2015–present).

Nonfiction and Modern American Studies, State University of New York Press (2008–present).

Guest Reviewer for Refereed Journals

American Periodicals, the journal of the Research Society for American Periodicals (2013–present).

Journal of American History (2011–present).

Reviewer for Textbooks

Reviewer for various scholarly presses - Bloomsbury, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Chicago, SUNY (2008–present).

Juror for a Performance

Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Award Program for Creative Nonfiction. National Council of Teachers of English (2009).

Reviewer or Panelist for Grant Applications

Council on Culture & Arts (COCA), City of Tallahassee and Leon County (2008).

Service to Professional Associations

Judge, Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Award Program for Creative Nonfiction, National Council of Teachers (2009–2013).

Interviews

Paul Haney. (2017). "All Things Essay: Interview with Ned Stuckey-French, Nonfiction Judge, 2017 Beacon Street Prize.". Redivider: A Journal of New Literature and Art [Journal]. Retrieved from http://www.redividerjournal.org/all-things-essay-interview-with-ned-stuckey-french-nonfiction-judge-2017-beacon-street-prize/

With Steven Church, Dinah Lenney, Dinty Moore, and Peter Trachtenberg. (2016). "On Truth, 'Essayistic Fiction,' and Canine Thumping: A Roundtable Discussion.". Essay Daily [Online Journal]. Retrieved from http://www.essaydaily.org/2016/01/on-truth-essayistic-fiction-and-canine.html

Eric LeMay. (2013). "The American Essay in the American Century.". New Books in Literary Studies [New Books Network - online colloquium about academic books]. Retrieved from http://newbooksinliterarystudies.com/2013/05/17/ned-stuckey-french-the-american-essay-in-the-american-century-university-of-missouri-press-2011/#comment-1123

Greg Britton. (2012). "Saving the University of Missouri Press: A Q & A with Bruce J. Miller and Ned Stuckey-French.". Johns Hopkins University of Press Blog [Blog]. Retrieved from http://jhupressblog.com/2012/11/02/saving-the-university-of-missouri-press-a-q-a-with-bruce-j-miller-and-ned-stuckey-french/

Lynn Neary. (2012). "University of Missouri Debates Balance of Academia, Budget.". All Things Considered [National Public Radio]. 

Kate Sullivan. (2012). "Missouri Press Donnybrook.". WordSmitten [blogtalkradio]. Retrieved from http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten/2012/06/17/wordsmitten-about-the-books-sundays-at-5-pm

Dinty Moore, & Sarah Einstein. (2012). "As a Matter of Fact: A Roundtable Discussion about Anonymous' 'The Facts of the Matter' and Truth and Craft in Nonfiction.". Brevity Nonfiction Blog [blog]. Retrieved from http://brevity.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/as-a-matter-of-fact-a-roundtable-discussion-about-anonymous-the-facts-of-the-matter-and-truth-and-craft-in-nonfiction/

Dinty Moore, & Sarah Einstein. (2012). "Reality is Sly, People are Complicated: The Facts of the Matter (Part Two)." Brevity. Brevity Nonfiction Blog [blog]. Retrieved from http://brevity.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/reality-is-sly-people-are-complicated-the-facts-of-the-matter-part-two/

Service to Other Universities

Outside reviewer for Tenure, U of Missouri (2017). 

Outside reviewer for Tenure, Trinity University (2016). 

Outside reviewer for Tenure, Fairfield University (2013). 

Outside Reviewer for Tenure, Chowan University (2012). 

Outside Reviewer for Tenure, Elon University (2012). 

Senior Honors Projects Committee, Reader, Department of English, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY (1998–1999). 

Search Committee (Pre-20th Century American Cultural Studies), Department of English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (1994–1995). 

Admissions Committee, Voting Member, Department of English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (1994–1995). 

Admissions Committee, Reader, Department of English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (1992–1994). 

Recruitment and Orientation Committee, Department of English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (1991–1994). 

Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (1991–1992). 

The Community

Judge, Redivider Magazine Contest, Redivider Nonfiction Prize, Emerson College (2017).

Judge, Michael Steinberg Award, Fourth Genre Magazine, Michigan State University (2016–2017).

Judge, Nonfiction, Florida Book Awards (2014–2015).

Judge, Creative Nonfiction Contest, Prime Number: A Journal of Distinctive Poetry & Prose (2014).

Additional Service Not Reported Elsewhere

Stuckey-French, N. C. (2009). Reader for 3rd edition of John Morris, Magazine Editing: How to Develop and Manage a Successful Publication. Routledge.