Overview
Oona Blood Cullen (B.A., Bard College; M.A., Cornell University) holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from Cornell University, where she currently serves as Visiting Lecturer. Her research focuses on contemporary North American, British and Irish literature, media and performance, centering the material, formal, and narrative valences and entanglements of embodiment and identity. A passionate teacher, Cullen was the recipient of both 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” won the 2023 Marvin Carlson Essay Award and features in the December 2024 edition of Modern Drama. An independent recording artist, Cullen releases music under her first and middle names: “Oona Blood.” Her EP Lunate debuted in March of 2026, and is available to stream on all major platforms.
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