Scholarship and Biography

Feeney graduated from Harvard in 1979 with a magna cum laude degree in History and Literature. He has worked for the Boston Globe since then, as a researcher, reporter, reviewer, editor and staff writer at The Boston Globe Magazine.


He has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Princeton, and Brown universities. During spring 2014 he was an Institute for the Liberal Arts journalism fellow at Boston College.


A finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his "penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting." In 2009, he was a Foster Distinguished Writer at Penn State University. In 2010, he delivered the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Honors

Pulitzer Prize for criticism
Pulitzer Arts Foundation (United States, St Louis), 2008
Foster Distinguished Writer
Penn State Wilkes-Barre (United States, Back Mountain), 2009
Alan Miller Fund Visiting Journalist
University of Maine (United States, Orono), 2010
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum (United States, Washington D.C.) - SAAM, 2010

Organizational Affiliations

Lecturer in American Studies, Interdepartmental Program in American Studies, Brandeis University

Education

Harvard University
B.A.