Mathilda Cullen
is a poet, artist, and translator from Long Island, New York. She is a second-year doctoral student in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where she works with the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture.
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Poetry
WHOMSESSelected Creative Publications
Ernst Toller, Vormorgen: The Collected Poems of Ernst Toller. Trans. Mathilda Cullen (New York: The Operating System, 2021)
Jayne-Ann Igel, “Excerpts from Fahrwasser.” Trans. Mathilda Cullen. Poetry Project Newsletter 274.
Academic Publications
2024 “Uncanny Objects: Lacan, Heidegger, and the Return of the Gaze,” (with Cameron More) in Uncanny Perspectives in Literature and Culture.
2023 “Revolutionary Time, the Time of the Dead: Sean Bonney’s Achronological
Solidarities,” Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics 19. Oakland. 2023.
Conference Participation
2025 “The Antinomies of Anatomy: Lacan’s Common Error of Transsexual Difference.” LACK V: Psychoanalytic Theory. Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio.
2024 “‘Sex is the New Surgery’: Cronenberg’s Prosthetics of the Real.” NeMLA. Boston, MA.
2023 “Castrating Horace: The Forced Feminization of Translation.” Identity in Flux: The
Making and Unmaking of Medieval Social Categories,
Brown University, Providence, RI.
2023 “Fail Lie Stung: Homophonic Parapraxis from Sigmund Freud to David Melnick.”
NeMLA. Niagara Falls, NY.
2021 “The Horizon is a Kettle: Notes on the Negative Lyric,” SUNY Purchase Humanities Symposium.