H. Bruce Franklin
| H. Bruce Franklin | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 28, 1934 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | scholar |
| Years active | 1950s-present |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Franklin |
| Awards | Pearson-Bode Prize Eaton Award, 1981 Pilgrim Award, 1983 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Amherst, B.A., 1955 |
| Alma mater | Stanford, Ph.D., 1961 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cultural historian |
| Institutions |
Rutgers-Newark 1975-present Stanford 1961-1972 |
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. So far he has written or edited nineteen 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.
Born in February 1934, Franklin held numerous jobs in Brooklyn while working his way through college. From 1951 to 1952, he was a batch worker at the Mayfair Photofinishing Company. In 1953, he was an upholsterer for the Carb Manufacturing Company, and was later promoted to foreman of the shipping department in 1954. He graduated from Amherst in 1955. In 1956, he married Jane Morgan with whom he has had three children. From 1955 to 1956, he was a tugboat deckhand and mate for the Pennsylvania RR Marine department, based in Jersey City, New Jersey. He served in the United States Air Force from 1956 to 1959 as a navigator and intelligence officer. In 1966, he resigned his commission in the Strategic Air Command as a protest against the Vietnam War.
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