Dr. Gary M. Ciuba
English
Campus:
Trumbull
Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday, hours vary by semester
Biography
Included among the courses Dr. Ciuba teaches are:
- Modern Fiction of the U.S. South
- Modern Southern Drama
- American Literature 1945-Present
- American Drama, Major Modern Writers
- Introduction to Technical Writing
- College Writing I and II
Education
Ph.D., Fordham University
Publications
- Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 287 pages. Paperback reissue in 2012.
- Walker Percy: Books of Revelations. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. 332 pages. Paperback reissue in 2010.
- ”School for Sanctity: O’Connor, Illich, and the Politics of Benevolence.” A Political Companion to Flannery O’Conner. Ed. Henry J. Edmonson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. 222-250.
- “‘Not His Son’: Violent Kinship and the Spirit of Adoption in The Violent Bear It Away.” Dark Faith: New Essays on The Violent Bear It Away. Ed. Susan Srigley. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. 57-86.
- *“‘To the Hard of Hearing You Shout’: Flannery O’Connor and the Imagination of Deafness.” Flannery O’Connor Review 10 (2012): 1-18.
- *“Living in a ‘World of Others’ Words’: Teaching Morrison and Faulkner.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 21.2 (Fall 2004): 13-20.
- *“Ransom’s God Without Thunder: Remythologizing Violence and Poeticizing the Sacred.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. 10 (2003): 40-60.
- *“ 'Like a Boulder Blocking Your Path': Scandal and Skandalon in Flannery O'Connor.” The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 26-27 (1999-2000): 1-23.
- *“The Worm Against the Word: The Hermeneutical Challenge in Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine.” African American Review 34.1 (2000): 119-33.
Awards/Achievements
- “Alum-inary,” Fordham University, Distinguished Alumnus, Department of English, 2009.
- C. Hugh Holman Award for Desire, Violence, and Dignity in Modern Southern Fiction, given by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature to the best work in Southern literary criticism, 2008.