Department of English
Department of English
sullivan

Rory Sullivan

Assistant Professor, General Faculty
res9pw@virginia.edu
Office Address/Hours

MWF 10-11:30 and 2:15-3 and by appointment.

Class Schedule
MWF 12:00-12:50, 1:00-1:50; MW 3:30-4:45

Degrees

2025, Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2017, MA English, University of Virginia

2014, BA English, The College of William and Mary

 

Publications

Digital Project, "Searching For Frankenstein: The Locales of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Then and Now," https://mappingfrankenstein.wordpress.com/

 

Conferences and Presentations

“The Virtual Experience of Chaucer’s House of Fame,” Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland, Dublin, 2021.

“Time Dis/jointed: Ekphrasis and Prosopopeia in Chaucer’s House of Fame”, on panel “Secular Temporalities”, 54rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2019.

“Constructing Horror in the 1931 film Frankenstein,” on panel “Afterlives of Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein” Jane Austen Summer Program, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2018.

“Through Glass Darkly: The Spatial Memory of the Temple of Venus in Chaucer’s House of Fame”, on panel “Chaucer and the Senses 1: Sight”, 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2018

“The Failure of Photography: Peter Henry Emerson’s Questioning of the Camera”, on “Capturing Time: Documents of Visual History”, Making and Collecting Graduate English Students Association Conference, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2017.

“Here vs There: Imaginative Travel and Control in Dracula”, on panel “Border States I: Crossing National Borders in 19th Century Fiction”, The 58th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, St Louis, Missouri, 2016.

“Projections on the Past: The Rückenfigur in Goya’s “May, 1808” Paintings”, on panel “Visual Storytelling and the Art of Narrative”, Terrible Beauty Graduate Research Conference, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2016.

“More Than Words Alone: The Altarpiece and Affective Piety in Medieval Prayer”, The 15th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2015.

 

Awards

Erika Lindemann Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2022

Breen Award for outstanding work in the field of Medieval Studies, 2019

Balch Prize for a Masters Student in English, 2017