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Jocelyn Cullity

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Jocelyn Cullity | Associate Professor

Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing. Specializes in fiction, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting.

HUMB 277  |  460-6149  |  jcullity@southalabama.edu

Envy of Paradise CoverThe Envy of Paradise. Inanna Publications, 2019.
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Finalist for the 2020 International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction.

In 1858, the British took over the city of Lucknow, paving the way for Queen Victoria's reign over India. But what happened to Begam Hazrat Mahal, the woman of African-Indian descent who had valiantly organized a final key resistance to British rule, and to her ex-husband, Wajid 'Ali Shah, the last King in India, who remained imprisoned by the British? The Envy of Paradise tells their stories.

Publications

  • The Envy of Paradise (novel) Inanna Publications (November 15, 2019). Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, International Book Awards, 2020.
  • Interview with Janet Burroway, The Missouri Review (Summer, 2019).
  • "Clement Parsons and Rudyard Kipling," (assistant to editor for scholarly article), The Kipling Journal (December, 2018).
  • "Cocktail Hour" (short story), UpNorth Lit (September, 2018). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  • Amah and the Silk-winged Pigeons (novel), Inanna Publications (Fall, 2017). Winner, Historical Fiction, Best Book Awards, 2018. One of twenty internationally recommended books by the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2018. Translated into French by Les Editions La Pleine Lune (Quebec), into Tamil by Kalachuvadu Publications (India), and available in English by Rupa in India and the Indian subcontinent; Audible Audiobook with Rishma Malik: 2020.
  • "The Two-Body Problem" (creative nonfiction), Minerva Rising Literary Journal (2017).
  • "The Shaws" (short story), Indiana Voice Journal (2015). Republished Indian Review (2015).
  • "Another Love Story" (short story), Empty Sink Publishing (September, 2015).
  • "Visiting Chairman Mao" (short story), Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, Press 53 (October, 2014). Finalist, 2015 International Book Awards.
  • "Easter" (short story), TWJ Magazine (April, 2014).
  • Interview with Janet Burroway, The Writer's Chronicle (September, 2011).
  • "Mutiny" (short story), Blackbird 9.1 (2010). Notable Story of 2010, storySouth; nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  • "Gender Imbalance in International Internet News: A Case Study of the BBC" (article with P. Younger), Journal of Media, Culture & Society 31.6 (2009).
  • "The Visit" (short story), Ten Stories High 9 (2008). Selected for inclusion in the anthology by the Canadian Authors Association (Niagara Branch).
  • Going to the Sea (documentary film). Recommended DVD accompaniment, Comparative and International Education: Issues for Teachers (Teachers College Press, 2008). The film aired in Canada on the Women's Television Network, Knowledge Network, Saskatchewan Cable Network, and also with the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation. Sold to university libraries in the United States, Canada, China, England, and South Africa. Winner of the Lester B. Pearson Award for International Development Issues (Canada).  
  • "Outside Bangkok" (short story), Hayden's Ferry Review 40 (2007).
  • "Canada" (short story), The Nashwaak Review 18/19.1 (2007).
  • "Foreign Film" (short story), Room of One's Own 30.1 (2007).
  • "Sex Appeal and Cultural Liberty: A Feminist Inquiry into MTV India" (article with P. Younger), Television: The Critical View 7th ed. (2007): 507-529 (reprint); Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25.2 (2004).
  • "Minnows" (short story), The Dalhousie Review 84.1 (2004).
  • "Chrysanthemum Gardens" (short story), Hawaii Pacific Review 18 (2004).
  • "The Global Desi" (article), Journal of Communication Inquiry 26.4 (2002).
  • "Letter from America" (creative nonfiction), Voice of the Working Woman (India) 22.2 (2002).
  • "General Situation" (creative nonfiction), Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 20 (2001).
  • "Learning to Teach in China" (creative nonfiction), Passionfruit: A Women's Travel Journal IV (2000).