- Professor
University of Calgary
Department of English
Rebecca Sullivan
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| F2012 - ENGL 239 - Fundamentals Of Literary Studies: Special Topics | |||||||||||||||||
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| F2012 - ENGL 302A - Foundations: Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Practices | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2013 - ENGL 302B - Foundations: Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Practices | |||||||||||||||||
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Research
Rebecca Sullivan specializes in feminist media and cultural studies. Her work bridges analysis of popular cultural representations with media industries and political, legal and regulatory frameworks that circumscribe women's agency and bodily integrity in the public sphere.
She is the author of Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism and American Postwar Popular Culture (2005),the co-author of Canadian Television Today (2006) and Becoming Biosubjects (2011), and co-editor of How Canadians Communicate: Contexts of Popular Culture (2010).
Rebecca is currently a Fellow in the Calgary Institute for the Humanities (2010-11). She is a past Killam Resident Fellow (2003-4) and past Senior Fellow of the Institute for United States Policy Research (2007-8). She has held two SSHRC standard research grants and is currently developing a national team-based project on Canadian Porn Cultures.
Publications
Book
- Gerlach, Neil, Sullivan, Rebecca, Hamilton, Sheryl and Walton, Priscilla. Becoming Biosubjects. Bodies. Systems. Technologies University of Toronto Press, 2011. Print.
- Beaty, Bart, Briton, Derek, Filax, Gloria and Sullivan, Rebecca. How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture Athabasca, AB: Athabasca University Press, 2010. Print.
- Beaty, Bart and Sullivan, Rebecca. Canadian Television Today Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006. Print.
- Sullivan, Rebecca. Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism and American Postwar Popular Culture University of Toronto Press, 2005. Print.
Degrees
- PhD - Communications - McGill
- MA - Mass Communication - Carleton University
- BA - Arts Administration - University of Toronto
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