Mairead Sullivan

Associate Professor and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Mairead Sullivan is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Professor Sullivan’s research and teaching interests include feminist and queer theory, feminist methodologies, critical health studies, and identity based health politics. Dr. Sullivan spent a number of years working in women’s and LGBT public health before pursuing doctoral work. Sullivan holds an M.S.W. in Research Social Work
(emphasis in public health) from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University. In addition to being widely published in the field of LGBT public health, Sullivan is the author most recently of “Kill Daddy: Reproduction, Futurity, and the Survival of the Radical Feminist” in Women’s Studies Quarterly and “A Crisis Emerges: Lesbian Breast Cancer in the Wake of HIV/AIDS” in The Journal of Lesbian Studies. Prof. Sullivan is the author of Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). Professor Sullivan's next project is a cultural study of the herpes virus.

Education (3)

Emory University: Ph.D., Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Boston University: M.S.W. 2007

College of the Holy Cross: B.A. 2003

Accomplishments (2)

LMU Ascending Scholar Award 2020 (professional)

2020-05-01

The award is presented based on the scholarship, creative activity, and/or extramural funding of the faculty member while on the faculty of Loyola Marymount University. Scholarly work completed when the nominee was not on the LMU faculty is not formallyconsidered. Theworkhascontributedtoorinfluencedthefaculty member’sfieldofwork. Theworkhasgarneredexternalrecognitionsuchas honors, awards, or funding.

Mellon/Institute for Citizens and Scholars Emerging Faculty Leaders Award 2020 (professional)

2020-05-15

https://woodrow.org/news/2020-mellon-emerging-faculty-leader-awards/

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Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer