Tucker Arnold    
e-mail arnolds@fiu.edu    phone: 305.348.3372    office: DM-463A  University Park

Educational Background:
Vanderbilt, B.A. 
Stanford, M.A. 
Stanford Ph.D. 

Courses Taught: ENC 1101, 1102; Expository Writing; Survey of
American Literature I, II; Literature and the Visual Arts; Modern Psychological
Novel; American Folklore-- Modes of Folk Expression; Southern Literature;
Major American Writers: Twain, Howells; James, Hemingway, Fitzgerald,
Faulkner; Short Story; Contemporary Southern Authors; British Survey I;
Psychosis in Literature; Approaches to Literature (2012); 19th Century
American Literature; American Revolution in Literature; American Humor;
Advanced Composition; Women Writers of the Modern South; Violence in Southern
Literature

Areas of Research and General Literary Interests: Psychology
and Literature; Southern Literature; Eudora Welty; American Humor esp.animals
in American Literature; Violence in Literature; Folklore, esp. Folk Music
and Storytelling; Adaptation of Folk Themes to Formal Literature esp. in
Modern Southern Literature; Humor in 19th Century American Southwest-
Humorists; antebellum American Humor

Other Interests or Remarks: "I'd love to get in contact with others wanting to do storytelling or to make folk music. I'm faculty sponsor of the Enlightenment Enterprise Society: student 
lit. society, publisher of The Muse . Group has potential if others might 
be willing to help me push the young literati a bit. We need new student personnel 
with ad skills and lit. gifts.