John Kucich
John J. Kucich is a professor of English at Bridgewater State University. He is the former editor of The Concord Saunterer, the journal of the Thoreau Society, ; the author of Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in 19th-Century American Literature (Dartmouth, 2004); and author of several recent essays on the intersections between Native and European American cultures in the 18th and 19th centuries. He edited the essay collection Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau's Legacy in an Unsettled Land (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019) and co-edited Henry David Thoreau and the Nick of Time (Mercer University Press, 2025). His latest book is Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism and the Power of Place (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). He currently serves as the president of the Thoreau Society.