Dr. Cuda joined the faculty at UNCG in 2006. He has been Associate Head of the English department since 2013. He teaches classes in twentieth-century literature and in the work of the medieval poet Dante.
Education
Ph.D. Emory University (2004) B.A. Duquesne University (1998)
Cuda’s research interests include transatlantic modernism, especially the poetry and prose of T. S. Eliot. He is co-editor of the award-winning The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot and managing editor of the newly launched digital version of the prose edition at JHUP. You can read his introduction to T. S. Eliot here, originally published in A Companion to Modernist Poetry (2014). He is Executive Director of the T. S. Eliot International Summer School in Oxford, an annual nine-day study program in July at Merton College open to all students, teachers, and readers of Eliot.
Selected Publications
The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. January 2010.
Co-editor, The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, The Critical Edition. Vol. II: The Perfect Critic: 1919-1926. General Editor, Ronald Schuchard. London and Baltimore: Faber & Faber and Johns Hopkins UP. 2014. Awarded the Modernist Studies Association 2015 Book Prize for an Anthology, Edition, or Collection of Essays.“A monumental work of scholarly editing . . . sure to be widely used, appreciated, and admired.” MSA Book Prize committee.
“Belatedness in The Family Reunion.” Critical Perspectives on T. S. Eliot’s Drama. Forthcoming, Spring 2025.
“Emily Hale, and the Several Reunions.” T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 5 (2024): 147-58.
“The Complete Prose: The Critic’s Workshop.” T. S. Eliot Now. Ed. Megan Quigley and David E. Chinitz. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 23-36.
“Back, late, from the Hyacinth Garden” T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 4 (2022): 57-72.
“Unbuttoned & Unimportant: Tidbits from the Archive.” Special Forum: First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive. T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 3 (2021):151-53.
“Reinventing Modernism: Randall Jarrell’s Unwritten Essay on T. S. Eliot.” Modern Language Quarterly 82:1 (March 2021): 81-116.
“Prufrock, Belated.” Special Forum: “Prufrock at 100.” T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 1 (2017): 89- 92.
“What happened to ‘Modern Tendencies’?” T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 2 (2018): 115-121.
“A Precise Way of Thinking and Feeling: Eliot and Verse Drama.” The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. Ed. Jason Harding. Cambridge UP, 2017. 116-130.
“Evenings at the Phoenix Society: Eliot and the Independent London Theatre.” T. S. Eliot and the Other Arts. Ed. Frances Dickey and John Morgenstern. Edinburgh UP, 2016. 202-24.
“The Waste Land’s Afterlife: The Poem’s Reception in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.” The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land. Ed. Gabrielle McIntire. Cambridge UP, 2015. 194-210.
“T. S. Eliot.” A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Ed. David Chinitz and Gail McDonald. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 450-463.
“The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: T. S. Eliot’s Life.” A Companion to T. S. Eliot. Ed. David Chinitz. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 3-14.
Links & Resources
Professor Cuda is secretary of the T. S. Eliot Society, which holds its annual meeting St. Louis.
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