J. Ken Stuckey

J. Ken Stuckey

  • Assistant Professor English and Media Studies and Assistant to Chair, English and Media Studies
  • Ph.D. Cornell University
  • M.A. Cornell University
  • M.A. Wake Forest University
  • B.A. Wake Forest University

Teaching Interests

Teaching and research interests include African American literature, American cinema, and American popular culture.

Research Interests

African American literature American cinema Popular culture

Bio

Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2003. Dissertation title: "The Face of the Deep: African American Intellectuals and Alienation."

Professional Memberships

  • Modern Language Association 2023-04-01 - 2024-04-30
  • Society For Cinema and Media Studies 2022-08-01 - 2023-07-01
  • August Wilson Society 2019-06-01 - Present
  • American Literature Association 2016-01-01 - Present
  • Popular Culture Association 2013-01-01 - 2021-12-31
  • Space Between Society, McGill University 2016-03-01 - 2017-05-31
  • Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Present

    • Awards and Honors

  • Innovation in Teaching Award, Bentley University
  • Bentley Innovation in Teaching Award
  • Bentley Innovation in Teaching Award
  • Mellon Fellowship
  • Anonymous Donor Fellowship
  • Martin Sampson Teaching Award

    • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Journal Articles

  • Stuckey, J. (2024). Their Whole World in Our Hands: Baldwin's Responsibility to Children. James Baldwin Review, (10) Issue 1 (Link)
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2015). "Make Me Over, or Ripley at Midnight". Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide (Link)
  • Stuckey, J. Art That Touches: August Wilson, Romare Bearden, and the Quest for Intimacy. African American Review (Forthcoming)

    • Books

  • Stuckey, J. K. (2026). The Bard of the Blues: A Critical History of August Wilson Suffolk, UK, and Rochester, NY: Camden House Publishing (Boydell & Brewer) (In Progress)

    • Book Chapters

  • Stuckey, J. K. (2025). Black Masculinity and Homosocial Bonding August Wilson in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Stuckey, J. Stephen McKinley Henderson Centering and Celebrating the Wilsonian Warriors. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press (Forthcoming)

    • Conference Proceedings

  • Stuckey, J. (2024). “Their Whole World in Our Hands: James Baldwin's Responsibility to Children”
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2010). “"When Literature Is Evangelical: Pedagogies of Passion"” Center for the Improvement of Teaching University of Massachusetts-Boston

    • Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blogs, Podcasts

  • Stuckey, J. 2022. "Bentley Newsroom"
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2019. "“HBO’s Takedown of Michael Jackson.”"
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2019. "Rev. of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders."
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2019. "Review of The Favourite"
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2018. ""If They Could See Him Now""
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2016. ""Talk Like a Man""
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2016. "Prince of Paradox"
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2015. ""Foxcatcher" (review)"
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2015. "A Gay Night at the Oscars"
  • Stuckey, J. K. 2022. "Rev. of The Power of the Dog"

    • Other Scholarly Work

  • Stuckey, J. K. (2016). Prince’s Legacy: ‘Set Your Mind Free’. Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide (Link).
  • Stuckey, J. K. The Face of the Deep: African American Intellectuals and Alienation. .

    • Presentations

  • Stuckey, J. (2025). “Black Literary and Cultural Studies Now: A Roundtable” Presented at the Rice University Black Literature and the Other Arts Houston, TX (Link)
  • Stuckey, J. K. (Ed.) (2025). “Beyond the Dramaturgy: New Horizons in August Wilson Scholarship” Presented at the American Literature Association ALA National Conference Boston
  • Stuckey, J. (2025). “Creative Crossroads: American Literature and the Other Arts” Presented at the Rice University Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Houston, TX (Link)
  • Stuckey, J. (2025). “Inclusive Teaching Through Art”
  • Stuckey, J. (2025). “In Good Hands: Forthcoming August Wilson Scholarship” Presented at the August Wilson Society August Wilson Society Biennial Colloquium University of Pittsburgh
  • Miranda, J., Stuckey, J. K. (2024). “An Evening with Manuel Muñoz”
  • Kelley, E., Falbo, A., Stuckey, J. K., LeDoux, E. A. (2024). “Inclusive Teaching Workshop for New Faculty” Presented at the Bentley University New Faculty Orientation
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2024). “James Baldwin's I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Roundtable)” Presented at the American Literature Association ALA National Conference Chicago
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2024). “Drama, Adaptation, Performance” Presented at the American Literature Association ALA National Conference Chicago
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2024). “James Baldwin’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Roundtable Discussion” Presented at the Modern Language Association Modern Language Association Convention Philadelphia, PA
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2023). “August Wilson's Genres: Theater, Film, and Music” Presented at the ALA American Literature Association National Conference Boston
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2023). “Young Hearts Run Free: Juvenile Sexual Rebellion in Atonement and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days” Presented at the SCMS Society For Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference Denver, CO
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2022). “August Wilson in Context” Presented at the American Literature Association Conference Chicago
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2021). “Bedford Avenue and Beyond: The Conceptual Landscape of August Wilson” Presented at the ALA American Literature Association Annual Conference Boston
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2021). “Freaks and Meeks: Gender Politics in the Films of 2007” Presented at the Popular Culture Association National Conference virtual
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2021). “James Baldwin: From Harlem to Hollywood”
  • Andrews, B. J., Choi, S., Eijmberts, J. P., Ledley, F. D., Cleary, E., Thomas, S., Schwarzkopf, D. L., Stuckey, J. K., Davi, W., DeLeo, R., Moriarty, J., Gainsborough, J. F., Gentry, W. (2020). “How Taxes Shape Lives” Presented at the Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences Convener, Bentley Humanities Seminar Bentley University
  • Stuckey, J. K., Davi, W. (2020). “The Poverty Tax: Using the Neo-western to Critique Social Injustice” Presented at the Valente Center Humanities Seminar Bentley
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2019). “The Resonance of August Wilson: The Hammer Keeps a Ringing” Presented at the American Literature Association Boston, MA
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2019). “Where and When I Labor: The Black Worker in the Collages of Romare Bearden” Presented at the PCA Popular Culture Association National Conference Washington DC
  • Pennel, R., Abbott, T., Stuckey, K., Siomopoulos, A., LeDoux, E., Medden, S. (2019). “Teaching Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Workshop”
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2018). “Wakanda Wisdom: African American History and Culture for the 21st Century” Presented at the August Wilson Society August Wilson Society Colloquium Pittsburgh
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2018). “I Go Forth Alone: Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit” Presented at the ACLA American Comparative Literature Association UCLA
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2017). “Falling Up: Broken Marriages and Soul-Killing Corporations in American Film” Presented at the Popular Culture Association San Diego
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2016). “Glancing Blows: The Violent Black Gaze in the Social Protest Novel” Presented at the McGill University Under Surveillance in the Space Between Conference Montreal
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2016). “Sentimental Value: Myopic Pragmatism in the the Works of August Wilson and Toni Morrison” Presented at the ALA American Literature Association National Conference San Francisco
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2015). “"Selma"” Presented at the Bentley University Campus Dialogue on Race
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2014). “Rock and Roll: Groundhog Day, Office Space, and the Sisyphean Myth” Presented at the PCA/ACA Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference Chicago
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2013). “Fight the Power: Black Bureaucrats in Procedural Dramas” Presented at the PCA/ACA Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference Washington DC
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2010). “"When Literature Is Evangelical: Pedagogies of Passion"” Presented at the Center for the Improvement of Teaching Teaching for Transformation University of Massachusetts-Boston
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2008). “"You Complete Me": Training Day, Collateral, and the Masculine Ideal” Presented at the NEMLA Boston
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2007). “"Wrath and Tears": Religion and Rebuke in African American Memoir” Presented at the National Association of African American Studies Baton Rouge, LA
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2007). “The New Cassandras: Women Psychics and Seers in Television Drama” Presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference Boston
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2007). “Not Gaye: Luther Vandross and the Masculinity of the Crooner” Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Calgary, AB
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2006). “Not Gaye: Luther Vandross and the Masculinity of the Crooner” Presented at the ACA/PCA Joint Conference Atlanta, Georgia
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2005). “De-liberating Disguises: Emasculating Isolation in Deliverance and The Shining” Presented at the ACA/PCA Joint Meeting San Diego, CA
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2004). “How to Teach Literature Well at a Business University” Presented at the Brown-bag discussion Bentley College

    • Reviews

  • Stuckey, J. K. (2024). Rev. of African American Political Thought and The Black Intellectual Tradition. , (57) 1 97-102. (Link)
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2021). Rev. of Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence. , (54) 3 262-264.
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2020). Nakedness Has No Color (Rev. of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own). , (27) 6 35-36.
  • Stuckey, J. K. (2017). Studio 54. 18-Jan p. 37. (Link)

    • Service

    Service: Department

  • Committee Member for Barbara Paul-Emile Lecture Committee 2022-11-01 - Present
  • Committee Member for Curriculum Committee - Present
  • Committee Member for Assistant to the Chair Search Committee / Transition Liaison 2022-01-31 - 2022-12-31
  • Committee Member for Strategic Planning Committee 2018-09-01 - 2022-07-31
  • Committee Member for Search Committee 2019-01-01 - 2019-03-31
  • Class visit report for Evaluation Committee 2018-02-01 - 2018-05-31
  • Committee Member for Search Committee 2016-10-01 - 2017-03-31
  • Committee Chair for Curriculum Committee 2016-02-01 - Present
  • for Search Committee, Lecturer lines 2014-01-01 - 2014-04-30
  • Class Visitor for Evaluation Committee 2013-03-01 - 2013-11-30
  • Committee Member for Literature and Film Committee 2011-08-01 - 2015-12-31
  • Committee Member for Media and Culture 2008-09-01 - 2014-05-31

    • Service: Public

  • Juror for Suffolk County Superior Court 2023-06-05 - 2023-06-09

    • Service: Professional

  • Recruiter for Institute on Teaching and Mentoring 2023-10-25 - 2023-10-29
  • Conference/Workshop Organizer for August Wilson Society 2018-09-01 - Present

    • Service: University

  • Committee Member for Bentley Learning and Teaching Council 2025-09-01 - Present
  • Guest Speaker for Academic Exploration Day - 2025-11-02
  • Panel Moderator for Dottie (film screening and discussion) - 2025-03-26
  • Faculty LMS team member for Bentley University Brightspace Pilot Cohort 2023-01-01 - 2023-05-31
  • Committee Member for Bentley University Shuttle Advisory Committee 2022-03-01 - Present
  • Task Force Member for Transfer Friendliness Advisory Group 2021-07-01 - 2021-09-30
  • Task Force Member for Lecturer Task Force 2020-10-01 - 2020-12-31
  • Committee Member for Teaching and Scholarly Activities Committee 2018-09-01 - 2020-05-31