Keith Lee Huneycutt, Ph.D.
Professor of English
My teaching goals are to help students discover ways to read great works of literature, to put those works into context, and to discover new authors and writings that will broaden and deepen their worldviews; to help students develop reading, research, and analytical skills that they can use to continue educating themselves throughout their lives; and to help students strengthen their writing.
Biography
Dr. Huneycutt received his Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988. Since 1987, he has taught over forty different courses at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Literature, Victorian Literature, Masterpieces of World Literature, The Writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Writings of Jane Austen, and African Literature are among his favorite courses. He has been chair of the English Department and of the Humanities Division and has served on the Faculty Senate, the Faculty Professional Interest Committee, the General Education Committee, and many other campus committees. He is the Faculty Director for Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honorary Society. Beyond the campus, he has made numerous scholarly presentations to community and professional organizations and served as the President of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú College English Association in 2007, receiving that organization's Distinguished Colleague Award in 2011. He also is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, The College English Association, The Modern Language Association, The National Council of Teachers of English, The South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society.
Education
B. A., M.A. and Ph. D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Interests
Dr. Huneycutt enjoys fishing, hiking, canoeing, reading, traveling, gardening, conversing with family & friends.
Awards
- ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Advisor of the Year, 2016- 2017.
- Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. Inducted 2014.
- Distinguished Colleague Award from The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú College English Association, 2011.
- Sigma Tau Delta, National English Honor Society. Inducted 2007.
Publications
The Storm: An Antebellum Tale of Key West, by Ellen Brown Anderson. University Press of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2024.
“The Man in George Brown’s Letters: Masculinity on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Frontier, 1840-1857.” The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Literature. XXVIII (2020): 81-91.
The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú's Antebellum Frontier. The University Press of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, August, 2019. with James M. Denham.
“The Storm: The Case for Ellen Brown Anderson’s Authorship.” ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Studies Review. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. January, 2018. 20-32.
“The Storm: True Womanhood, Feminism, and Companionate Marriage in Antebellum Key West.” The College English Association Critic. 79:3 (November, 2017): 291 - 298.
“Nature, Phosphate, and Harry Crews’s Naked in Garden Hills.” The College English Association Critic. 75:3 (November 2013): 258-269.
“Being a Nigger, I Never Had No Choice”: Revision, Race, and the Role of Henry Short in Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú College English Association. VII (2012) 85 – 100.
“Land, Class, and Money: Economic Cause & Effect in Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country.” ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú College English Association. VI (2011). 179 – 188.
“Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country.” The Literary Encyclopedia. 9 January 2011. Web.
“The Profound Silence of the Initiated”: Zora Neale Hurston’s Polk County, Dorothy Waring, and Stage Voodoo. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú College English Association. V (2010).
Book chapter: "Before the Mouse: From Glass-Bottom Boats to Gatorland." ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú in the Popular Imagination. Ed. Steve Glassman. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2009. 19 – 32.
"Corinna Brown Aldrich and Ellen Brown Anderson." The Literary Encyclopedia.
5 June 2009. Web.
“Zora Neale Hurston’s Polk County.” The Literary Encyclopedia. 23 June 2009. Web.
“Lumber Mills, Phosphate Pits, and Phantom Lands: Polk County, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú as a Literary Setting.” ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú College English Association. III (2008).
“Judging Mr. Watson: Peter Matthiessen’s Bone by Bone and Henry Flagler.” ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú College English Association. II (2007): 101 - 107.
“The Brown Sisters in Antebellum ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú: ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Writers?" ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú College English Association. I (2006): 75 - 80.
Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters’ Correspondence from Antebellum ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 1835-1850. The University of South Carolina Press, 2004. with James M. Denham.
“Everything is Hubbub Here”: Lt. James Willoughby Anderson’s Seminole War, 1837-1842.” The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Historical Quarterly (Winter 2004) Vol. 82, Issue 3, p. 313-359. with James M. Denham.
“Our Desired Haven: The Letters of Corinna Brown Aldrich from Antebellum Key West,1849-1850,” The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Historical Quarterly (Spring 2001), 517-45. with James M. Denham.
“With Scott in Mexico: Letters of Captain James W. Anderson in the Mexican War, 1846-1847,” The Journal of the Military History of the West (Spring 1998), 19 – 48. with James M. Denham.
Projects
Dr. Huneycutt is continuing his research into various aspects of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Èë¿Ú's literature, history, and culture.