John Cussen, PhD

Dr. John Cussen is a professor in the Department of English, Modern Languages and Philosophy.

He teaches courses in literature and writing.

He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Traditional Scholar’s Award to India; of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship; of Summer Research Fellowships in Latin-American Studies offered by The University of Illinois-University of Chicago Consortium for Latin American Studies, The University of Pittsburgh Center for Latin American Studies, and the Einaudi Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Cornell University; and of three Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grants.

His essays on writers García Márquez, Lahiri, Theroux, Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, Jo Baker, and on other authors, as well as on North Korean issues, have appeared in The Montréal Review, Theory in Action, Catholic Journal, Journal of Modern Literature, Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, The CEA Critic, The New Hibernian Review, JEAL:  Journal of Ethnic American Literature, the Southern Humanities Review, ANQ:  A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Review, Critical Insights: Gabriel García Márquez, Religion and the Arts, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Studies in Travel Writing, Explicator, Korean Studies:  Journal of the Center for Korean Studies, North Dakota Quarterly, Full Stop, Review of Korean Studies, Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, The Yeats Journal of Korea, Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of the Modern Fiction Society of Korea, and other scholarly publications.

His book reviews and short essays have appeared in International Journal of Korean History, JAS:  Journal of Asian Studies, North Korean Review, Journal of Asian Politics and History, Full Stop:  Reviews, Interviews, Marginalia, World Literature Today, Irish Literary Supplement, India Currents, Rain Taxi, Ithaca News, Erie Times-News, Korea Timesand other places.

His fictions have appeared in the New Oxford Review, the National Association of Scholars website, Fiction, Confrontation, Ascent, Cincinnati Magazine, Ambergris and other literary outlets.

His interests are those of a generalist in literature, a Catholic, and a self-trained North Korean observer.