Overview
Oona Blood Cullen (B.A., Bard College; M.A., Cornell University) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Literatures in English, with graduate minors in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Media Studies. Her current research focuses on contemporary North American, British and Irish literature, performing and media art, centering on the material, formal, and narrative valences and entanglements of embodiment and identity. She is a passionate teacher, and the recipient of the 2023 Gitner TA Award and the 2024-5 Shin Yong-Jin Graduate Fellowship for excellence in scholarship and teaching. Her article “Black Queer Cosmologies, Sonic Geographies, and Embodied Entanglement in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays” was the 2023 recipient of the Marvin Carlson Essay Award and featured in the December 2024 edition of Modern Drama.
Research Focus
- Methodologies of Performing and Media Arts
- 21st Century American and British Literature, Media and Cultural Studies
- Narratology and Formalism
- Feminist Materialisms
- Ethnic/Critical Race Studies
- Queer Theory
- Embodiment
- Pedagogy