Anthony Cuda

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Anthony Cuda

Email: ajcuda@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3326
Phone: 336-356-1117

Education
Ph.D. Emory University-2004
B.A. Duquesne University-1998

Dr. Cuda’s 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.

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

Books

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.

Articles and Chapters

“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.

Read Cuda’s full curriculum vita here.

Links & Resources

Watch Professor Cuda introduce the new digital version of The Complete Prose for Johns Hopkins UP and Project MUSE here.

Professor Cuda is secretary of the T. S. Eliot Society, which holds its annual meeting St. Louis. Find this year’s program and other Society activities here.

Watch Professor Cuda discuss belatedness in T. S. Eliot for the Digital Sessions 2020 version of the T. S. Eliot International Summer School here.

Professor Cuda appeared on NPR’s The Diane Rehm show in 2013 to talk about T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Listen to the program or read the transcript here.

Explore Professor Cuda’s Website