Mairead Sullivan

Mairead Sullivan is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Professor Sullivan’s research and teaching interests include feminist and queer theory, feminist methodologies, critical health studies, and identity based health politics. Dr. Sullivan spent a number of years working in women’s and LGBT public health before pursuing doctoral work. Sullivan holds an M.S.W. in Research Social Work
(emphasis in public health) from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University. In addition to being widely published in the field of LGBT public health, Sullivan is the author most recently of “Kill Daddy: Reproduction, Futurity, and the Survival of the Radical Feminist” in Women’s Studies Quarterly and “A Crisis Emerges: Lesbian Breast Cancer in the Wake of HIV/AIDS” in The Journal of Lesbian Studies. Prof. Sullivan is the author of Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). In the fall of 2022, Prof. Sullivan will be on research leave for their next project, a cultural study of the herpes virus.