FACULTY

Emeritus Professor. B.A., Highlands University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Missouri.

Professor Bucco taught courses in American literature and honors humanities. A specialist in American literary realism and American criticism, Professor Bucco has published numerous reviews, articles, and nine books, including critical biographies of Frank Waters, Wilbur Daniel Steele, E.W. Howe, and Rene Wellek. Known for his work on western American writers, and for his leadership in the Western Literature Association, he is also an authority on Sinclair Lewis. Most recently he has edited Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis, written a full-scale interpretation Main Street: The Revolt of Carol Kennicott, and contributed the Introduction and Notes to the Penguin edition of Main Street. He is on the Board of Directors of the Sinclair Lewis Society and is writing a big interpretive study entitled Literary Sinclair Lewis: The Novelist as Critic.