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McCullough, Mary K.
Cornell Faculty Member
Positions
- Associate Professor, English (ENGL), College of Arts and Sciences
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Affiliations
other Cornell affiliations
Research
research overview
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- American Literature After 1865
- Women's Literature
- Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
- Lesbian/Queer Theory
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- ‘Marked by Genetics and Exile’: Narrativizing Transcultural Sexualities in 'Memory Mambo'. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 6:577-607. 2000
- The Boston Marriage as the Future of the Nation: Queerly Regional Sexuality in 'Diana Victrix'. American Literature. 69:67-103. 1997
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book
- Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women’s Fiction, 1885-1914. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 1999
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chapter
- Of Woman (But Not Man or the Nuclear Family) Born: Motherhood Outside Institutionalized Heterosexuality. From Motherhood to Mothering : The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2004
- Mapping the Terra Incognita of Woman: George Egerton’s New Woman Fiction. The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction. New York: Garland Publications. 205-223. 1996
- Slavery, Sexuality, and Genre: Pauline E. Hopkins and the Representation of Female Desire. The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 21-49. 1996
selected publications listing
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- "Kate Chopin." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Paul Lauter, ed. Fifth Edition, Vol. C. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 357-9.
- "Kate Chopin." The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Teacher's Edition. Paul Lauter, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
- “Pauline Hopkins.” Entry in The Encyclopedia of New England. David Walters, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 993.
- “Of Woman (But Not Man or the Nuclear Family) Born: Motherhood Outside Institutionalized Heterosexuality,” The Legacy of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born, Andrea O’Reilly, ed. SUNY Press, 2005.
- “‘Marked by Genetics and Exile’: Narrativizing Transcultural Sexualities in Memory Mambo.” GLQ 6:4 (Autumn 2000), 577-607
- Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women’s Fiction, 1885-1914, 1999, Stanford University Press.
- “The Boston Marriage as the Future of the Nation: Queerly Regional Sexuality in Diana Victrix,” American Literature 69:1 (Mar 1997), 67-103.
- “Slavery, Sexuality, and Genre: Pauline E. Hopkins and the Representation of Female Desire,” The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, John Gruesser, ed., University of Illinois Press, 1996. 21-49.
- “Mapping the Terra Incognita of Woman: George Egerton’s New Woman Fiction,” The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction, Wellesley Studies in Literature and Culture Series, Susan Meyer and Barbard Herman, eds., Garland Press, 1996. 205-23.
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Teaching
teaching activities
- AMST-3720: Food, Gender, and Culture - Spring 2013
- ENGL-3721: Food, Gender, and Culture - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Spring 2013
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Spring 2013
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Spring 2013
- FGSS-3720: Food, Gender, and Culture - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Fall 2012
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Fall 2012
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Fall 2012
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Fall 2012
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Fall 2012
- FGSS-2010: Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - Fall 2012
- ENGL-1105: FWS: Writing and Sexual Politics - Spring 2012
- ENGL-3780: Studies in Queer Fiction - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Spring 2012
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Spring 2012
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Spring 2012
- FGSS-3781: Studies in Queer Fiction - Spring 2012
- AMST-4521: Gender, Memory and History in 20th C. Fiction - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4521: Gender, Memory and History in 20th C. Fiction - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Fall 2011
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Fall 2011
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Fall 2011
- FGSS-4000: Senior Seminar in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - Fall 2011
- FGSS-4521: Gender, Memory and History in 20th C. Fiction - Fall 2011
Service
current professional activities
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University Service:
- English Department Undergraudate Studies Committee, 2005
- Member, Academic Integrity Hearing Board, 2004-07
- English Department Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003-04
- English Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Autumn 2002
- Women’s Studies Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Autumn 2002; 1999-2000
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies DUS, Spring 2002; 2002-2005
- English Department Speakers Committee, Autumn 2001-
- Women’s Studies Curriculum Reform Committee, Autumn 2001-02
- Women’s Studies Core Faculty, 2001-05
- Women’s Studies/German Search Committee, Autumn 2001
- Women's Studies/FGSS Advisory Board, 2001-05
- Women’s Studies Executive Committee, 1999-2000
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- Contribuing Editor, Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2004-05
- Panel Organizer, MELUS, U.T. San Antonio, March 2004
- Reader for GLQ, 2000-3, 2004
- Panel Organizer, "Lesbian Narrative." Narrative Theory Conference, UC Berkeley, March, 2003
- Presiding Officer, Women and Literature Panel, Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association, 1999-2000
- Presiding Officer, American Literature Panel, Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association, 1996-7
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley 1992
- M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College, Dublin, with honors 1984
- B.A. in Modern Literature and Society, Brown University, magna cum laude 1983
awards and honors
- Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, 2004
- Tenure, 2002
- Tenure and Promotion, 1997
- Outstanding Service Award, STARS Program, 1996
- Assigned Research Appointment, 1995
- Summer Research Appointment, 1994
- Pass with distinction, Ph.D. oral exam, 1988
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
- William Gaston Thesis Award, 1983
- Harvey A. Baker Fellowship, 1983