McCullough, Mary K.
Associate Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
- American Literature After 1865
- Women's Literature
- Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
- Lesbian/Queer Theory
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- English (ENGL) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- American Studies | minor graduate field
- English Language and Literature | graduate field
- Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | minor graduate field
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender studies | minor graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- American Studies Program | academic program office
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) | academic program office
teaching
teaches
- AMST 3720 - Food, Gender, Culture (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2009 class
- ENGL 3721 - Food, Gender, Culture (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2009 class
- ENGL 4930 - Honors Essay Tutorial I (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ENGL 4940 - Honors Essay Tutorial II (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ENGL 4950 - Independent Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ENGL 7940 - Directed Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ENGL 7950 - Group Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- FGSS 3720 - Food, Gender, Culture (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2009 class
- AMST 3480 - Studies in Women's Fiction: Feminist Literary Tradition (TR 01:25:PM-02:40:PM) | spring 2009 class
- ENGL 3480 - Studies in Women's Fiction: Feminist Literary Tradition (TR 01:25:PM-02:40:PM) | spring 2009 class
- ENGL 4521 - Gender, Memory and History in 20th C. Fiction (T 10:10:AM-12:05:PM) | spring 2009 class
- FGSS 3480 - Studies in Women's Fiction: Feminist Literary Tradition (TR 01:25:PM-02:40:PM) | spring 2009 class
- FGSS 4521 - Gender, Memory and History in 20th C. Fiction (T 10:10:AM-12:05:PM) | spring 2009 class
- FGSS 2010 - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2008 class
- FGSS 4000 - Senior Seminar in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (W 10:10:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2008 class
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
educational background
- Ph.D., (English), University of California, Berkeley, 1992
- M.A., (with honors, Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama), University College, 1984
- B.A. (magna cum laude, Modern Literature and Society), Brown University, 1983
professional background
- Cornell University, Associate Professor, English and Women’s Studies/Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2001-
- Cornell University, Visiting Professor, English and Women’s Studies, 1999-2001
- Miami University, Associate Professor, English and Women’s Studies, 1998-1999
- Miami University, Assistant Professor, English and Women’s Studies, 1992-98
awards and distinctions
- Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell University, 2004
- Tenure, Cornell University, 2002
- Tenure and Promotion, Miami University, 1997-98
- Outstanding Service Award, STARS Program, Miami University, 1996
- Assigned Research Appointment, Miami University, Spring 1995
- Summer Research Appointment, Miami University, Summer 1994
- Pass with distinction, Ph.D. oral exam, U.C. Berkeley, 1988
- Harvey A. Baker Fellowship, Brown University, 1983
- Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 1983
- William Gaston Thesis Award, Brown University, 1983
featured in
- Instructors pair up with librarians to ramp up student research skills | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- "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.
contact
email address
mkm23@cornell.edu