Johanna H. Stuckey
School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Professor Emerita
Email: jstuckey@yorku.ca
In addition to the recent publication of A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam, Dr. Stuckey and Douglas R. Frayne received the prestigious 2022 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.
Dr. Stuckey has published widely on goddesses in numerous book chapters and journal articles. Until she retired, she yearly rewrote the chapter on "Women and Religion" in "Feminist Issues" (edited by Nancy Mandell).
As of 2022, in her 88th year, Dr. Stuckey has begun work on a small book on ancient goddesses.
Degrees
PhD English, Yale UniversityMA English, University of Toronto
BA English Language and Literature, University of Toronto
Research Interests
- 2022 Prose Award from the Association of American Publishers for A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam, Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, with illustrations by Stéphane Beaulieu, Penn State University Press - 2022
- OCUFA Teaching Award - 1984
- University of Toronto Continuing Studies Award -
- FAS Dean's Teaching Award -
- Faculty of Arts Teaching Award -
Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East, written with University of Toronto Assyriologist Professor Douglas Frayne and published by Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press in 2021.
Women’s Spirituality: Contemporary Feminist Approaches to Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Goddess Worship. Toronto: Inanna Press, 2010.
“Inanna and Huluppu Tree: One Way of Demoting a Great Goddess” in Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions. Edited by Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pages 91-105.
In addition to the recent publication of A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam, Dr. Stuckey and Douglas R. Frayne received the prestigious 2022 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.
Dr. Stuckey has published widely on goddesses in numerous book chapters and journal articles. Until she retired, she yearly rewrote the chapter on "Women and Religion" in "Feminist Issues" (edited by Nancy Mandell).
As of 2022, in her 88th year, Dr. Stuckey has begun work on a small book on ancient goddesses.
Degrees
PhD English, Yale UniversityMA English, University of Toronto
BA English Language and Literature, University of Toronto
Research Interests
Awards
- 2022 Prose Award from the Association of American Publishers for A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam, Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, with illustrations by Stéphane Beaulieu, Penn State University Press - 2022
- OCUFA Teaching Award - 1984
- University of Toronto Continuing Studies Award -
- FAS Dean's Teaching Award -
- Faculty of Arts Teaching Award -
All Publications
“Inanna and Huluppu Tree: One Way of Demoting a Great Goddess” in Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions. Edited by Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pages 91-105.
Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East, written with University of Toronto Assyriologist Professor Douglas Frayne and published by Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press in 2021.
Women’s Spirituality: Contemporary Feminist Approaches to Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Goddess Worship. Toronto: Inanna Press, 2010.
