Professor Culleton specializes in modern and 20th century Irish, British, and American literature and culture.  She has written three books focused on this period—-Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), Names and Naming in Joyce (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994)—and has co-edited two books centered on literary modernism: Modernism on File: Modern Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).  She is currently working on a new book project that focuses attention on the Gaelic Athletic Association, Irish nationalism, and the Irish Literary Revival.  

Culleton’s work in the field of modern and twentieth-century Irish literature and culture led to her appointment in 2004 as General Editor for Palgrave Macmillan’s book series in Irish and Irish American literature. She has won several teaching awards including “Professor of the Year” from the Panhellenic Council at the University of Miami and the 1999 Distinguished Teaching Award from the Kent State University Alumni Association and the University Foundation.  Now in her twentieth year of teaching at Kent, Culleton teaches graduate seminars on British, Irish, and American modernism, Irish Postcolonial Literature, seminars on James Joyce and Irish literature and culture, and the required doctoral Methods course.  This spring she is teaching a senior seminar on James Joyce and the Irish Literary Revival, a special topics course on the 1960s and American literature and culture, and the undergraduate Kent Core courses, Major British, Irish, and American Modern Writers.