H. Bruce Franklin

rdf:langString H. Bruce Franklin

rdf:langString Rutgers-Newark 1975–present

rdf:langString Stanford 1961–1972

rdf:langString Stanford, Ph.D., 1961

rdf:langString Eaton Award, 1981

rdf:langString Pearson-Bode Prize

rdf:langString Pilgrim Award, 1983

rdf:langString Cultural historian

rdf:langString Amherst, B.A., 1955

rdf:langString American

rdf:langString scholar

rdf:langString H. Bruce Franklin (born February 1934) is an American cultural historian and scholar. He is notable for receiving top awards for his lifetime scholarship in fields as diverse as American studies, science fiction, prison literature and marine ecology. He has written or edited twenty books and three hundred professional articles and participated in making four films. His main areas of academic focus are science fiction, prison literature, environmentalism, the Vietnam War and its aftermath, and American cultural history. He was instrumental in helping to debunk false public speculation that Vietnam was continuing to hold prisoners of war. He helped to establish science fiction writing as a genre worthy of serious academic study. In 2008, the American Studies Association awarded him the Pearson-Bode Prize for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies. A critic of the Vietnam War, he was fired from Stanford in 1972 for allegedly inciting to riot, and the termination brought nationwide attention to the issue of academic freedom. Since 1975, he is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.