Scott Stoddart
- Writer
Dr. Scott F. Stoddart is the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at the
Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. Prior to this, he was the
Provost at Manhattanville College and an Associate Professor of Liberal
Arts at Nova Southeastern University, where he instructed courses in
American literature, cinema studies, and musical theatre history. He
has published on the fiction of Henry James, E. M. Forster, and F.
Scott Fitzgerald; the musical plays of Stephen Sondheim; and the films
of the Coen Brothers, Jane Campion, Jack Clayton, John Ford, Oliver
Stone and Martin Scorsese. He has also published on the image of the
president in Hollywood film and television. He has published two books:
the just released Analyzing Mad Men: Critical Essays on the Television
Series (McFarland, 2011) and The 1980s: American Popular Culture
through History (Greenwood, 2006). While at work on his next book, he
is editing the essay collections: Reading Downton Abbey, The 9/11
Western: Re-Purposing the Hollywood Genre and Regal Reels: Hollywood's
Fascination with The Royals.