SHAUN CULLEN Curriculum Vitae Middle Tennessee State University MTSU Box 70 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 1311 Dugan Ct. Murfreesboro, TN 37130 shaun.m.cullen@gmail.com (773)-726-3138 EDUCATION Ph.D. M.A. B.F.A. English, University of Virginia, 2013 Humanities, University of Chicago, 2005 Cinema Studies, New York University, with Honors, 2002 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Middle Tennessee State University, Department of English, Assistant Professor, 2017-present PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles 2016 White Skin, Black Flag: Hardcore Punk, Racialization, and the Politics of Sound in Southern California, Criticism, 58:1, 59-85 2016 The Innocent and the Runaway: Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Racial Melodrama, and the Epistemology of Ignorance, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 28:1, 33-50 Manuscripts in Submission How Do You Spell Love? Punk, Pop, and the Modern Grrrl, Women and Music There Is No Way Out of the Valley: William S. Burroughs and the Heterotopian Aesthetics of the CBGB Scene, Postmodern Culture AWARDS AND HONORS 2013 Summer Stipend, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Seminar in the Humanities, Poetics and the Modern Emotions, University of Virginia 2011 Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, Sponsored Partnership Scholarship 2011 Annette K. Baxter Travel Grant, American Studies Association 2010, 2011 Huskey Travel Award, University of Virginia 2008-2011 Summer Travel and Research Awards, University of Virginia
Cullen CV 2 2008-2010 Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Sponsored Participant 2009 Sciences, Humanities & Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI ) Cohort Fellow, University of Virginia 2006-2010 Commonwealth Fellowship, University of Virginia CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION Panels Organized 2016 United States of Intoxication: On Temperance and Excess in the Homeland, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (chair), November 17-20 2014 On the Pleasures of Speculation: The Cultural Imaginary of American Gambling, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November 6-9 2011 Subcultural Crossings: Intersectionality and the Politics of Cultural Identity, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 20-23 2011 Good Vibrations and Globalization: LA Pop and the Urban Crisis, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, January 6-9 2010 Rock Music and the Politics of Cultural Belonging, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 18-21 Conference Papers Delivered 2017 Filling in the Blank Generation: Beat and Punk in an Expanded Frame, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Oakland, CA, October 26-28 2015 Rockin in the Free World: Cold War Liberalism and the Lyrics of Neil Young, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Greenville, SC, September 24-27 2014 What Happens in Vegas, or Time Travel, the Primal Scene of Heteronormativity in Post-9/11 Hollywood Cinema, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November 6-9 2012 The CBGB Scene and the End of History, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 5-8 2011 Racialization and Asceticism in Hardcore Punk, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 20-23 2011 White Skin, Black Flag: SST Records and the Politics of White Ethnicity, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, January 6-9 2010 The Punk Event: The CBGB Scene and Avant-Garde Aesthetics, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 18-21 2010 William Gibson s Soundscapes, Futures of American Studies Institute: States of American Studies, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH, June 21-27
Cullen CV 3 2010 Decoding the Lattice of Coincidence: Repo Man (1984), Punk Rock, and the Critique of Postmodernity, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference: SCMS at 50/LA: Archiving the Future/Mobilizing the Past, Los Angeles, CA, March 17-21 2009 On Gangster Citizenship: Young Jeezy s Recession (2008), Cultures of Recession, Duke University, Durham, NC, November 20-21 2009 The Sound of a Little Voice and the Touch of a Little Hand: Burroughs, Punk, and the Problem of Self-Mediation, Futures of American Studies Institute: Re-Configurations of American Studies, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH, June 22-26 2009 American Gangster Time: The Rhetoric of Gangsterism after Bush, Chesapeake American Studies Association Conference: America after Bush, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, April 2 2008 Composing for the Films, or, Bruce Springsteen s Film Theory, Futures of American Studies Institute: Re-Configurations of American Studies, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH, June 16-21 2006 What Was He Thinking? Populism, Paranoia, and the Politics of Michael Moore s Fahrenheit 9/11, Film and History League Fourth Biennial Conference: Documentary, Dallas, TX, November 8-12 2006 Envisioning Childhood Sexual Abuse in Gregg Araki s Mysterious Skin, Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 27-29 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Middle Tennessee State University Contemporary Film (Fall 2017) Punk: The Aesthetics of Anarchy (Fall 2017) California State University, Northridge (Sole Instructor) Critical Approaches to Literature (Fall 2016) Major Critical Theories (Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014) The History of African-American Writing (6 sections, 2012-2016) Introduction to Literature (Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2012) Studies in Popular Culture (Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Fall 2012) Approaches to University Writing (Fall 2015, Spring 2014) Major American Writers (Fall 2011) Film and Literature (Fall 2011)
Cullen CV 4 University of Virginia ( Sole Instructor) Protest Literature (Spring 2011, Spring 2009) Accelerated Academic Writing (Fall 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007) Advanced Academic Writing (Fall 2008) University of Virginia (Teaching Assistant) Communicating with the Public (Spring 2010) History of Literatures in English II and III (Fall 2009, Fall 2006) Academic and Professional Writing (Fall 2006) OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 2010-2011 Assistant Director of First-Year Writing, University of Virginia Writing Program DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2009 President, University of Virginia Graduate English Student Association 2009 Webmaster, University of Virginia Graduate English Students Association Conference, Making Sense: Thinking & Feeling Texts 2008 Conference Committee, University of Virginia Graduate English Students Association Conference, Thing(s) Matter 2008 Judge, Telltale Literary Contest, Jefferson Society, University of Virginia LANGUAGES Spanish (intermediate) German (can read with dictionary) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Studies Association Modern Language Association Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Cullen CV 5 REFERENCES Eric Lott, Professor of English The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 elott@gc.cuny.edu 434-825-2209 Kathryn Bond Stockton, Distinguished Professor of English University of Utah 159 S. McClelland Street Salt Lake City, UT 84102 kathryn.stockton@utah.edu 801-815-9012 Danielle Spratt (teaching), Assistant Professor of English California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street Northridge, CA 91330-8248 danielle.spratt@csun.edu 818-677-3412