Department of English
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M.J. Cunniff
B.A. English, Wellesley College, 2011., M.A. English, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2015
Research Interests
Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Biography
My work focuses on the intersections of aesthetics, affect, and form in modernist and contemporary poetry. Secondarily, I am also interested in concepts of alterity and difference in SF/F and genre fiction, and in queer and feminist theories of the environmental and nonhuman.
Courses Taught:
ENGL0200x Unrealism: Science Fiction & Speculative Literature