Degrees Held
B.A., 1963, Denison University
Ph.D, 1967, University of Iowa
Academic Summary
With a doctorate in comparative literature, Cynthia Grant Tucker specializes in women's studies, biography, and the culture of humor. She has taught life-writing at the Iowa Writing Festival; the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California; the Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina; and the Center for Independent Living in Memphis.
Courses Taught
4451 Women and Literature
4471 The Art of Biography
4*** The Anatomy of Humor
7451 Women and Literature
7452 Biography as Process and Text
7*** Special Topic: The Anatomy of Humor
7441 European Fiction
Major Publications
- Spirited Threads: A Fabric Artist's Passion for Life: The Art and Writings of Patricia Roberts Cline. Portland, OR: Sibyl Publications, 1997.
- Prophetic Sisterhood: Liberal Women Ministers of the Frontier, 1880-1930. First published in hardback by Beacon Press, 1990, and in paperback by Indiana University Press, 1995. Now available as a paperback reprint from iUniverse.
- Healer In Harm's Way: Mary Collson, A Clergywoman in Christian Science. Nashville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. (First published as A Woman's Ministry in 1984 by Temple University Press).
- Kate Freeman Clark: A Painter Rediscovered. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981.
