Honoree-
Martin Tucker

For more than 43 years, Dr. Martin Tucker has touched the lives of students at the Brooklyn and C.W. Post Campuses of Long Island University. He began teaching as an adjunct professor in the English Department in Brooklyn in 1956. In 1958, he became a full professor, later serving as chair of the English department from 1976-1982. Dr. Tucker is the editor of the prize-winning literary journal Confrontation, a semiannual periodical published by the University. A founding member of the publication’s editorial board, he has served as editor-in-chief since 1970. Confrontation has published the original works of seven Nobel laureates, in addition to works by Arthur Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, Bayard Rustin, Denise Levertov and Paul Theroux.

Dr. Tucker began teaching in the English department at C.W. Post in 1983, where he worked until his retirement in 1996. He remains active in his role as professor emeritus, continuing to edit Confrontation. The satisfaction of many years of helping his students to attain personal and professional growth has been an enormously enriching experience for him. He remains in touch with many of them.

Dr. Tucker earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from New York University and his M.A. from the University of Arizona. He served as a member of the Long Island University Faculty Senate and co-chaired the C.W. Post Accreditation Committee. In 1980, he received the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement. He is the author of two collections of poetry, “Homes of Locks” and “Mysteries and Attention Spans,” in addition to several literary studies. His reviews, essays and stories have appeared in some of the most widely read and well-respected newspapers and magazines in the country. He has served as poet-in-residence at Cairo American College in Egypt and distinguished visiting professor at Florida International University in Miami. Dr. Tucker currently resides in Longboat Key, Florida.

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