St. Bonaventure University

School of Arts & Sciences Faculty

Sullivan, Sara

  • Sara Sullivan

    • ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
    English
    ACADEMIC SCHOOL
    School of Arts and Sciences

    TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
    Senior 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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