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Lucy Bucknell

Lucy Bucknell

Senior Lecturer

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Research Interests: American film; literature and film; screenwriting

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Lucy Bucknell came to Hopkins as a teaching fellow in The Writing Seminars, receiving her master's degree in writing in 1999. She taught in both The Writing Seminars and the Film and Media Studies Program for several years before becoming full-time faculty in FMS in 2007. 

Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review; The Chattahoochee Review; Cream City Review; Fiction; The Johns Hopkins Review; The Laurel Review; Natural Bridge; Pleiades; Southern Humanities Review; War, Literature & the Arts; Willow Review; and elsewhere.
 
She was the founding director of Writing Outside the Fence, a writing program for returning citizens in Baltimore, which ran from 2006 to 2023, and she was Principal Investigator for the Baltimore Youth Film Arts Program, which ran from 2016 to 2025.

Film Studies Courses:

The Wilderness Within and Without; American Landscapes in Film; Violent Attractions; Technology in Hollywood Film; Contested Ground: The American West on Film; Masculinities; Women in Popular Film and Television; The Westerns of Ford, Leone, and Peckinpah; and Unrealities: The Fantastic and The Absurd in Film and Fiction

Screenwriting Courses:

Visual Storytelling; The Fallen World: Morally Complex Storytelling; Character and Story Design for the Screenplay; Screenwriting by Genre; Characters for the Screenplay

“MENTORS FOR YOUNG BALTIMORE STORYTELLERS PIVOT AFTER FUNDING LOSS,” by Jasmine Vaughn-Hall, The Baltimore Banner, June 16, 2025

“As Funds Run Dry, a Program for Young Storytellers Enters Its Final Chapter” by Jasmine Vaughn-Hall, The Baltimore Banner, May 9, 2024.

“Meet the Neighbors: Q&A with Lucy Bucknell of Writing Outside the Fence,” by Andrew Hamm, Little Patuxent Review, December 2, 2018.

“Film Festival Spotlights Baltimore’s Creative Youth,” by Katy Oh, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, November 15, 2018.

“Film, Photography, and Performance: Young Artists Pursue Their Visions Through Johns Hopkins Program.” by Katie Pierce, Johns Hopkins University – Hub, July 26, 2016.

Writing Outside the Fence: Writers Read From Their Work (podcast) Enoch Pratt Free Library, May 29, 2012. 

A Community of Writers Celebrates Five Years, by Betsy Boyd, Baltimore Fishbowl, May 31, 2011.

Inside Jokes: A comedy workshop prepares inmates for standup at the Brockbridge Correctional Facility’s “talent night,” by Andrea Appleton, City Paper, January 19, 2011. 

Inside Stories: The Writing Outside the Fence Inmate/Ex-Offender Writing Contest, by Lucy Bucknell & Kimberly Williams, Urbanite (p.59), March 2009. 

Getting It Out: What Was Supposed To Be An Ex-Offenders Workshop Has Spawned A Creative Community Hive Of Writers, by Bret McCabe, City Paper, June 6, 2007.