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Dr. Sean Lawrence O'Sullivan
557 Denney Hall
164 W Seventeenth Av
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 247-8797
Email: osullivan.15@osu.edu
Current OSU Appointment
Assistant Professor, English
Abstracts and Short Entries
O'Sullivan, Sean. "Fantasy Island" [Short Entry]. Lost's Buried Treasures. Edited by Lynnette Porter and David Lavery. 3rd ed. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks. (2010): 72-74. Print. [Editor Reviewed] (Published)
O'Sullivan, Sean. "Our Mutual Friend" [Short Entry]. Lost's Buried Treasures. Edited by Lynnette Porter and David Lavery. 3rd ed. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks. (2010): 21-24. Print. [Editor Reviewed] (Published)
Books and Monographs
O'Sullivan, Sean. Mike Leigh. Contemporary Film Directors, 1st ed. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2011. Print.
Chapters In Books
O'Sullivan, Sean. "No Such Thing As Society: Television and the Apocalypse." In Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism. 2nd ed. Edited by Lester Friedman. 223-242. London: Wallflower Press. 2006. Print.
O'Sullivan, Sean. "Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: Deadwood and Serial Fiction." In Reading
O'Sullivan, Sean. "The Decalogue and the Remaking of American Television." In After Kieslowski: The Legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski. Edited by Steven Woodward. 202-225. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2009. Print.
O'Sullivan, Sean. "Reconnoitering the Rim: Thoughts on Deadwood and Third Seasons." In Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives. Edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. 323-332. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2009. Print.
O'Sullivan, Sean. "Space Ships and Time Machines: Mad Men and the Serial Condition." In Mad Men: Dream Come True TV. Edited by Gary Edgerton. 115-130. London: I. B. Tauris. 2010. Print.
Degrees
| - 1988 | A.B., Princeton University, English; summa cum laude |
| - 1990 | B.A., University of Bristol, Drama (First Class Honours); studied as Marshall Scholar |
| - 1995 | M.A., Yale University, English |
| - 1997 | M.Philosophy, Yale University, English |
| - 2000 | Ph.D., Yale University, English |
Editorial Activities
Advisory Board
| 2000 - 2003 | The South Carolina Review. |
Guest Editor
| 2011 | Journal of Short Film. Issue 22 and Issue 23. The Journal is a DVD composed of short films; three editors are responsible for selecting 60+ minutes of submitted material for each issue. |
Moving Image
Editor. Soundtrack. (1990). [16mm film].
Director/Writer. The Adventure of a Photographer. Directed by Sean O'Sullivan. Performer(s): Simon Pegg. (1990). [U-matic].
Key Production Assistant. Laws of Gravity. Directed by Nick Gomez. Performer(s): Edie Falco; Peter Greene; Adam Trese. (1991). [16mm film].
Production Coordinator. Justine. (1992). [16mm film].
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
O'Sullivan, Sean. "Broken on Purpose: Poetry, Serial Television, and the Season." Storyworlds. Vol. 2. (2010): 59-77. Print.
Positions
| 1995 - 1997 | Teaching Assistant, Yale University, Department of English. New Haven, CT, United States. |
| 1998 - 1999 | Instructor, Yale University, Department of English. New Haven, CT, United States. |
| 2000 | Instructor, Yale University, College Seminar Program. New Haven, CT, United States. |
| 2000 - 2006 | Assistant Professor, Clemson University, Department of English. Clemson, SC, United States. |
| 2006 - present | Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Department of English. Columbus, OH, United States. |
Presentations
Invited Presentations
Local
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Tertiary Characters." Project Narrative panel on Television Seriality. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. (January 2011)
National
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Serials and Satisfaction." "The End?" Conference. Keynote Speaker. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN. (March 2010)
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Television: The Third Way." Conference on Novel and Film, Center for the Study of the Novel. Stanford University. Stanford, CA. (April 2010)
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "The Decalogue, The Sopranos, and Serial Television." Fordham University, Department of English and Department of Literary Studies. Bronx, NY. (April 2011)
Other Presentations
Local
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "The Full Monty and the Empire's New Clothes." Yale Center for British Art. New Haven, CT. (May 1999)
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Between the Meaningless and the Constitutive." European Cinema Research Forum Conference. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. (April 2007)
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "I Dwell in Possibility: The Sopranos vs. Lost." 2nd Project Narrative Debate (with Jared Gardner). The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. (May 2008)
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "The Perpetual Problem of British Cinema." Ohio State University Film Studies Lecture. Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. (May 2011)
National
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Making Ends Meet: Patterns of Conclusion in Dubliners and Ulysses." Miami Joyce Birthday Conference. University of Miami. Miami, FL. (February 1997) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Redgauntlet and the Sense of Omission." Sixth International Scott Conference. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. (July 1999) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Hitchcock's Baggage." 26th Annual Conference on Literature and Film. Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL. (February 2001) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Turning Pro: Chariots of Fire, My Beautiful Laundrette, and the Myth of British Cinema." 27th Annual Conference on Literature and Film. Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida. (January 2002) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "David, Dickens, Hitchcock: The Portrait and the Plot." International Conference on Narrative. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. (March 2003) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Mike Leigh: The Unknown Aesthete." 29th Annual Conference on Literature and Film. Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL. (February 2004) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "The Art of the Real: Mike Leigh as Gustave Courbet." International Conference on Narrative. University of Vermont. Burlington, VT. (April 2004) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "The Decalogue and the Remaking of American Television." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago, IL. (March 2007) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Three Transformations of Television Narrative." International Conference on Narrative. Georgetown University. Washington, DC. (March 2007) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?." The Sopranos: A Wake. Fordham University. New York, NY. (May 2008) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Mike Leigh's Shorts." International Conference on Narrative. University of Texas. Austin, TX. (May 2008) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Broken on Purpose: Poetry, Serial Television, and the Season." Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference. University of Tennessee. Knoxville, TN. (October 2009) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "A Synecdoche of Something That Does Not Yet Exist." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Los Angeles, CA. (March 2010) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Space Ships and Time Machines: Mad Men and the Serial Condition." International Conference on Narrative. Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, OH. (April 2010) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "The Sonnet-Season Comes to a Stop." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. New Orleans, LA. (March 2011) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan Sean, Presenter. "Tertiary Characters and Serial Narrative." International Conference on Narrative. Washington University. St. Louis, MO. (April 2011) [Peer Reviewed]
International
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "High Hopes: The Man and the Room." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. London, England. (April 2005) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Deadwood, Dickens, and Serial Fiction." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Vancouver, Canada. (March 2006) [Peer Reviewed]
O'Sullivan, Sean, Presenter. "Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?." International Conference on Narrative. University of Birmingham. Birmingham, England. (June 2009) [Peer Reviewed]
Professional Activities
Conference Participation
| 2004 | Panel Chair. International Conference on Narrative. University of Vermont. Burlington, VT. |
| 2004 | Panel Chair. 29th Annual Conference on Literature and Film. Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL. |
| 2007 | Moderator. Project Narrative Symposium: "Multicultural Narratives and Narrative Theory". The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. |
| 2007 | Panel Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago, IL. |
| 2009 | Moderator. Project Narrative Symposium: "Narrative, Science, and Performance". The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. |
| 2010 | Panel Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 2010 | Panel Chair. International Conference on Narrative. Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, OH. |
| 2011 | Moderator. Projective Narrative Symposium: "Queer and Feminist Narrative Theory". The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. |
| 2011 | Panel Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. New Orleans, LA. |
Other
| 2008 | Writer. "Gaps in the Story: The New Serials". Ohio State University Department of English 2008 Newsletter. |
Research
| 2010 | Manuscript reviewer for article submitted to Narrative. External Examiner. |
Reviews
O'Sullivan, Sean. ""High, and Low, Society"." Review of British Cinema in the 1980s, by John Hill. The South Carolina Review. Vol. 34:2, no. Spring 2002. Clemson, SC. (2002): 162-165. Print. [Editor Reviewed] (Published)
Undergrad., Grad. and Prof. Courses Taught
Autumn 2006. The Ohio State University, English. Introduction to Film 263. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2006. The Ohio State University, English. Special Topics in Cinema 578A02. 5 credit hours
Spring 2007. The Ohio State University, English. Special Topics in Cinema 578.02. 5 credit hours
Spring 2007. The Ohio State University, English. Special Topics in Film and Literature 578.01. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2007. The Ohio State University, English. Special Topics in Cinema 578A02. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2007. The Ohio State University, English. Introduction to Film 263. 5 credit hours
Spring 2008. The Ohio State University, English. Writing for English Majors 398. 5 credit hours
Spring 2008. The Ohio State University, English. Seminar in Film Studies 878. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2008. The Ohio State University, English. Special Topics in Film 578A. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2008. The Ohio State University, English. Writing for English Majors 398. 5 credit hours
Winter 2009. The Ohio State University, English. Introduction to Film 263. 5 credit hours
Winter 2009. The Ohio State University, English. Introduction to Graduate Study in Film 778. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2009. The Ohio State University, English. Writing for English Majors 398H. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2009. The Ohio State University, English. The Long Seminar:1 900. 5 credit hours
Winter 2010. The Ohio State University, Film Studies. Introduction to Film Studies 270. 5 credit hours
Winter 2010. The Ohio State University, English. The Long Seminar:2 901. 5 credit hours
Summer 2010. The Ohio State University, English. Greenwich Summer Program 693. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2010. The Ohio State University, Film Studies. Introduction to Film Studies 270. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2010. The Ohio State University, English. Introduction to Graduate Study in Film 778. 5 credit hours
Spring 2011. The Ohio State University, English. Special Topics in Film 578. 5 credit hours
Spring 2011. The Ohio State University, English. Literary Locations 595. 5 credit hours
Spring 2011. The Ohio State University, English. Study Foreign Inst 697. 5 credit hours
Autumn 2011. Humanities COLMBUS, English. Hnrs US Exper: Lang 367.01. 5 credit hours