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Lois Cucullu

Lois Cucullu

English 18 LindH

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • modern British and American literature
  • modernism and modernity
  • history and production of knowledge
  • narrative and novel studies
  • Victorian literature and culture
  • gender studies and theory
  • popular culture and media
  • poetry and creative writing

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: English Literature, Brown University, 1998.

Publications

  • Over-Eating: Pilgrimage’s Food Mania and the Flanérie of Public Foraging: Cucullu, Lois B, Scott McCrackern, Modernism and the Everyday, 2.1 , Summer 2006. Link
  • "Exceptional Women, Expert Culture, and the Academy." Rhetorical Woman: Roles and Representations: Cucullu, Lois B, University of Alabama Press, 2005.
  • Expert Modernists, Matricide, and Modern Culture: Woolf, Forster, Joyce. Cucullu, Lois B, Palgrave Macmillan, Author, 2004. Link
  • Exceptional Women, Expert Culture, and the Academy: Cucullu, Lois B, Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 29.1 , Fall 2003.
  • ‘Only Cathect’: Queer Heirs and Narrative Desires in Howards End: Cucullu, Lois B, University of Minnesota Press, Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature, 2003.
  • Shepherds in the Parlor: Forster’s Apostles, Pagans, and Native Sons: Cucullu, Lois B, Novel, A Forum On Fiction, 32.1 , Fall 1998.
  • Retailing the Female Intellectual: Cucullu, Lois B, differences, A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 9.2 25-68, 1997.

Research Activities

  • W. M. Keck Foundation Fellow: The Huntington Library, 2000 - 2001
  • Andrew Mellon Fellow: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, June 2002

Creative Activities

  • Writing Fellow: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia
  • Poetry Reading: The Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series, Washington, D.C.

Professional Activities

  • Steering Committee: The Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology , 2002
  • Program Committee: Modernist Studies Association , 2003
  • Book Reviewer: Novel, A Forum On Fiction , 1999

Awards

  • Grant-in-Aid Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2008 - 2009
  • Best Director of Graduate Studies Award, The Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2008
  • Celtic Studies Fund Award, Department of English, University of Minnesota, 2007
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, The Huntington Library, 2005 - 2006
  • McKnight and Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, July 2004 - August 2004
  • Grant-in-Aid Fellowship, January 2000 - May 2000
  • Marie J. Langlois Outstanding Dissertation Award in Feminist Studies, Pembroke Center , for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, May 1999
  • Fulbright Fellowship, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, September 1988 - May 1989

Courses Taught

  • EngL 8190 - 1910 and The Culture of Modernism (twentieth-century anglophone literatures and cultures)
  • EngL 8510 - 'The Novelty of the Novel,' A Critical and Cultural History of the Novel (studies in criticism and theory)
  • Feminism and Modernism (twentieth-century anglophone literatures and culture)
  • EngL 5250 - "Empire and English Masculinity," Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
  • Down and Dirty: Censorship and the Modern Writer
  • EngL H3020 - Emptying the Nest: Domestics, Dandies, Deviants, and New Women (studies in narrative)
  • EngL 3671 - Honors, The Novel: Woolf, Joyce, and the Metropolitan Novel
  • EngL 3161 - The London Metropolis: From Boz to Dalloway
  • EngL 3960W - Junior-Senior Seminar - Hollywood & the English Novel
  • EngW 3104 - Intermediate Poetry Writing
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