St. Bonaventure University

Faculty

Sullivan, Sara

Sara Sullivan

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
English
ACADEMIC SCHOOL
School of Arts and Sciences

TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Lecturer, English
CONTACT
Office phone: (716) 375-2406
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OFFICE
Plassmann Hall 323
COURSES TAUGHT
  • ENG 100. Fundamentals of Written English
  • ENG 101: Writing I
ACADEMIC DEGREES
  • Ph.D. and M.A., Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa
  • B.A., English and Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
OTHER EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
  • Homeless housing services, re-entry services, nonprofit volunteer management (Buffalo)
  • Adjunct Writing Program lecturer and tutor, D’Youville University and SUNY Buffalo State
  • Learning Center writing specialist and adjunct lecturer (College Writing and Film), SUNY Plattsburgh
  • Graduate teaching instructor (Rhetoric; Cinema and Comparative Literature; and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Departments), University of Iowa
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • “Corporate Discourses of Sponsored Films of Steel Production in the US, 1936-1956.” Velvet Light Trap 72 (2013): 33-43.
  • “‘Polished Steel and Palpitating Flesh’: Historicizing Hollis Frampton’s Winter Solstice.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 31, no. 7 (2014): 656-668.
  • “Child Audiences in Nickelodeons: A Study Using Keith-Albee’s Managers’ Reports.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 30, no. 2 (2010): 156-168.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
  • Cinema of attractions at Niagara Falls, turn of the 20th century to the present
  • Nonfiction film in everyday life
PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
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