Teaching
Teaching & Mentorship
Cuda teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in modernism, modernist poetry and fiction, introductions to poetry and poetics, humanities and digital humanities, pedagogical methods, and Dante’s Commedia. He lectures and teaches a seminar annually at the T. S. Eliot International Summer School. And he conducts multiple pedagogy workshops in the English Department each year.
He is available to supervise undergraduate honors and MA theses and to participate, at UNCG or remotely, on doctoral committees in the field of modernist literary studies.
some sample courses
Modernism (357)
An interdisciplinary course featuring Nietzsche, Stravinsky, Picasso, Eliot, the Ballets Russes, Mann, Woolf, Rilke and others, focusing upon common aesthetic innovations and their conceptual underpinnings.
Dante in English (335)
An introduction to the works of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, featuring the Vita Nuova and readings from Aquinas, Aristotle, Bonaventure, and others, focusing upon an in-depth reading of three three books of the Commedia.
Gothic Modernism
An exploration of the gothic in the modernist mode, with emphasis on Thomas Mann, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and Virginia Woolf.
Modern Poetry (358)
A wide-ranging look at the groundbreaking poets, poetry, and poetics during the modernist period (1890-1950), with attention to stylistic movements, literary history, and archival sources.