Interests
Dr. Huneycutt enjoys fishing, hiking, canoeing, reading, traveling, gardening, conversing with family & friends.
Education
B. A., M.A. and Ph. D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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.