Mary E. Stuckey

Mary E. Stuckey is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University. She specializes in political and presidential rhetoric, political communication, and American Indian politics. Her work centers on the various ways that US national identity is created, maintained, and challenged. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of seventeen books and author or coauthor of roughly 100 essays and book chapters. She has received the Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award, the Michael M. Osborn Teacher/Scholar Award, the Rose B. Johnson Award (with Zoe Hess-Carney), the Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award, the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, the inaugural Carl Couch Center Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Award, and NCA’s Distinguished Scholar Award. She has served as Interim Editor of Rhetoric & Public Affairs, as editor of the Southern Communication Journal and the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and as book review editor for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. She co-edits (with Mitchell McKinney) Peter Lang’s series, The Frontiers of Political Communication.