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 Florida Southern College. Florida 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 Florida 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
- Florida Southern College Advisor of the Year, 2016- 2017.
- Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. Inducted 2014.
- Distinguished Colleague Award from The Florida 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 Florida, 2024.
“The Man in George Brown’s Letters: Masculinity on the Florida Frontier, 1840-1857.” The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. XXVIII (2020): 81-91.
The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier. The University Press of Florida, August, 2019. with James M. Denham.
“The Storm: The Case for Ellen Brown Anderson’s Authorship.” Florida 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. Florida Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. VII (2012) 85 – 100.
“Land, Class, and Money: Economic Cause & Effect in Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country.” Florida Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida 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. Florida Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. V (2010).
Book chapter: "Before the Mouse: From Glass-Bottom Boats to Gatorland." Florida 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, Florida as a Literary Setting.” Florida Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. III (2008).
“Judging Mr. Watson: Peter Matthiessen’s Bone by Bone and Henry Flagler.” Florida Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. II (2007): 101 - 107.
“The Brown Sisters in Antebellum Florida: Florida Writers?" Florida Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. I (2006): 75 - 80.
Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters’ Correspondence from Antebellum Florida, 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 Florida 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 Florida 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 Florida's literature, history, and culture.