Overview
Oona Blood Cullen (B.A., Bard College; M.A., Cornell University) is a PhD 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 American and British performing and media art, with particular attention to the material, formal, and narrative valences and entanglements of embodied experiences of gender, sexuality, and race which play out within these particular structures. 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” won the Marvin Carlson Essay Award in 2023 and is slated for publication in Modern Drama in December 2024.
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