J. Elspeth Stuckey currently runs the South Carolina Cross-Age Tutoring Project, a privately funded enterprise in S.C. rural schools. A native South Carolinian, she received her B.A. and M.A. from Winthrop college and later taught there and at Benedict College after receiving a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Linguistics and Lliterature at the University of Southern California. She has also been a Fulbright professor at the University of Liberia in Monrovia and a member of the Faculty in Writing at the Bread Loaf School of English. In addition to teaching, she has received a Ford Foundation Grant and a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Duke/UNC Center for Research on Women.
