Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler
Professor

Education: Ph.D. Oxford 1977
Office Location: PAR 108
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: (512) 471-4991
cullingford@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: Irish literature, politics, and culture; Modern poetry; Women's Studies; Drama and Film; Shakespeare; The relation between high and popular culture.

Recent Publications: Books:
Representing the Only Child (in progress).

Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture . Cork: Cork UP and South Bend: Notre Dame UP, 2001. 304pp.
(Winner of the American Conference for Irish Studies Rhodes Prize).

Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993 and Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1996. 336 pp.
(A Choice Outstanding Academic Book).

Yeats, Ireland and Fascism. London: Macmillan and New York: New York UP, 1981. 251 pp.

Editor, Yeats: Poems, 1919-1935: A Casebook. London, Macmillan, 1984. 235 pp.

Selected Articles and Chapters:
''Our Nuns Are Not a Nation: Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film.'' Eire/Ireland 41.1 and 2 (Spring and Summer 2006): 9-39.

''The Prisoner's Wife and the Soldier's Whore: Female Punishment in Irish Popular Culture.'' Keeping it Real: Irish Film and Television, ed. Ruth Barton and Harvey O'Brien. London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2004, pp. 8-24.

''Colonial Policing: Sebastian Barry's The Steward of Christendom and The Wanderings of Eneas McNulty'' Eire/Ireland 39.3 and 4 (Fall/ Winter 2004): 11-37.

''Mothers and Virgins: Sinead O'Connor, Neil Jordan, and The Butcher Boy.'' Yale Journal of Criticism 15.1 (2002): 185-210.

''Phoenician Genealogies and Oriental Geographies: Language and Race in James Joyce and his Successors.'' Semicolonial Joyce, eds. Derek Attridge and Marjorie Howes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000, pp. 219-239.

''The Stage Englishman of Boucicault's Irish Drama: National Identities in Performance.'' Theatre Journal 49 (Fall 1997): 289-303.

''British Romans and Irish Carthaginians: Anticolonial Metaphor in Heaney, Friel, and McGuinness.'' PMLA 111.2 (1996): 222-39.

''Seamus and Sinead: from 'Limbo' to Saturday Night Live via Hush-a-Bye Baby'' Colby Quarterly special issue on Seamus Heaney, 30.1 (1994): 43-62.

''Thinking of Her as Ireland: Yeats, Pearse, and Heaney.'' Textual Practice 4.1 (1990): 1-21.

''How Jacques Molay Got up the Tower: Yeats's 'Meditations in Time of Civil War','' ELH 50 (1983): 763-89.