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Sean O'Sullivan, Assistant Professor



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557 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210

Phone: 614-247-8797

Office Hours:
Autumn 2009: By appointment

Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/osullivan15/
and: https://pro.osu.edu/profiles/osullivan.15/


Ph.D., Yale University (2000)

Areas of interest

Film, especially British film; the British novel; narrative and the visual arts; television; serial fiction across media.

Research/writing

Author of Mike Leigh, under contract in the University of Illinois Press series on Contemporary Film Directors.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/series/CFD.html

Published essays on British television drama; Deadwood and Charles Dickens; third seasons; and Krzysztof Kieslowski, Six Feet Under, and Lost.

Essays in progress on fifth episodes and "narrative becoming"; serial television and poetry; and Mad Men.

Recent publications

“The Decalogue and the Remaking of American Television.” After Kieslowski: The Legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski. Ed. Steven Woodward. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 202-225.
http://wsupress.wayne.edu/book.php?id=903

“Reconnoitering the Rim: Thoughts on Deadwood and Third Seasons.” Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives. Ed. Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009. 323-332.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11757

“No Such Thing As Society: Television and the Apocalypse.” Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism. 2nd edition. Ed. Lester Friedman. London: Wallflower Press, 2006. 223-242
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/film-media/fires-were-started

“Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: Deadwood and Serial Fiction.” Reading Deadwood. Ed. David Lavery. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006. 115-129.
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1845112210
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