Huck Gutman

{{Short description|American academic (born 1943)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Huck Gutman | image = Huck Gutman.jpg | image_size = | caption = Gutman in 2019 | birth_name = Stanley Gutman | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|12|24}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | education = | alma_mater = [[University of Vermont]]<br/>[[Duke University]] | occupation = Academic, political advisor and writer | known_for = | political_party = | networth = | spouse = Bertha Gutman | parents = | children = | relatives = | website = }} '''Stanley''' "'''Huck'''" '''Gutman''' (born December 24, 1943) is an American academic and political advisor. He is a professor of English at the [[University of Vermont]] and a former chief of staff to presidential candidate [[Bernie Sanders]]. He is the co-author of Sanders's political memoir, ''[[Outsider in the White House]]''.

==Early life== Stanley Gutman was born on December 24, 1943.<ref name=huckwash>{{cite news|last1=Roig-Franzia|first1=Manuel|title=Huck Gutman brings a bit of poetry and verse to U.S. Senate colleagues|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803526.html|accessdate=January 19, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 19, 2010}}</ref> He graduated from the University of Vermont. While he was in college, he got the nickname "Huck" from [[Huckleberry Finn]] for walking barefoot around the campus.<ref name="huckwash" /> He received a PhD from [[Duke University]].<ref name="uvmbio">{{cite web|title=Faculty - Huck Gutman|url=https://www.uvm.edu/~english/?Page=HuckGutman.php|website=College of Arts and Sciences|publisher=The University of Vermont|accessdate=January 19, 2016}}</ref>

==Career== Gutman is a professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is an expert on "20th-century American, 19th-century U.S. Poetry, Modern Poetry."<ref name=uvmbio/> He is the co-editor of a book about [[Michel Foucault]] as well as a collection of essays about the global critical reception of American literature.<ref name=reviewedwork>{{cite journal|last1=Hodson|first1=Joel|title=Reviewed Work: As Others Read Us: International Perspectives on American Literature by Huck Gutman|journal=American Studies International|date=October 1991|volume=29|issue=2|pages=103–104|jstor=41280309}}</ref> He has also written articles for the ''[[Monthly Review]]'', two of which he co-authored with [[Harry Magdoff]].<ref name=monthlyreviewhuck>{{cite web|title=Huck Gutman|url=http://monthlyreview.org/author/huckgutman/|website=Monthly Review|accessdate=January 19, 2016}}</ref> He has written about [[Yehuda Amichai]], an Israeli poet.<ref name="jtathejewishberniesanders">{{cite news|last1=Kampeas|first1=Ron|title=The Jewish Bernie Sanders only Vermonters know|url=https://www.jta.org/2015/10/20/news-opinion/politics/the-jewish-bernie-sanders-who-only-vermonters-know|accessdate=February 1, 2016|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=October 20, 2015}}</ref>

Gutman was chief of staff to presidential candidate [[Bernie Sanders]] in the [[United States Senate]] until 2012.<ref name=huckwash/><ref name=insidethemindof>{{cite news|last1=Lewis|first1=Paul|title=Inside the mind of Bernie Sanders: unbowed, unchanged, and unafraid of a good fight|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/19/bernie-sanders-profile-democrat-presidential-candidate|accessdate=January 19, 2016|work=The Guardian|date=June 19, 2015}}</ref> He co-authored ''Outsider in the House'', Sanders's political memoir,<ref name=huckwash/> which was republished as ''[[Outsider in the White House]]'' in 2015.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

==Personal life== Gutman lives with his wife, Bertha and their children in [[Burlington, Vermont]].<ref name=huckwash/>

==Works== *{{cite book|last1=Foucault|first1=Michel|last2=Martin|first2=Luther H.|last3=Gutman|first3=Huck|last4=Hutton|first4=Patrick H.|title=Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault|date=1988|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|location=Amherst, Massachusetts|isbn=9780870235924|oclc=15550013|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/technologiesofse00fouc}} *{{cite book|last1=Gutman|first1=Huck|title=As Others Read Us: International Perspectives on American Literature|date=1991|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|location=Amherst, Massachusetts|isbn=9780870236297|oclc=22347513|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/asothersreadusin0000unse}} *{{cite book|last1=Gutman|first1=Huck|last2=Sanders|first2=Bernie|title=[[Outsider in the White House]]|date=2015|publisher=Verso|location=Brooklyn, New York|isbn=9781784784188|oclc=918986570}}

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