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Ned Stuckey-French
Ned Stuckey-French is an Associate Professor and Director of the FSU Certificate Program in Publishing and Editing and is the book review editor for Fourth Genre. He is author of The American Essay in the American Century and co-editor (with Carl H. Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time. His essays have appeared in magazines such as In These Times, Culturefront, the Pinch, Guernica, and Middlebrow.
Recent Writing
Required Reading
In her groundbreaking 1999 article “The Essay Canon,” Lynn Z. Bloom argued that the essays most people know—the essays that, effectively, define the genre—are the ones that appear most frequently in freshman composition anthologies.
A Real-World Education
Revisiting Studs Terkel's WORKINGIssue 57
Expanding the Essay Canon, One Decade at a Time
Ned Stuckey-French, author of The American Essay in the American Century, offers ten American essays—one from each decade of the 20th century—worthy of being read, studied, anthologized and taught.Issue 43
