Academic Staff: Dr Nikki Sullivan
Position: Associate Professor
Tel: 9850 8760
Fax: 9850 6893
Email: nikki.sullivan@scmp.mq.edu.au
Publications
Academic Profile
Nikki teaches courses on popular culture and cultural theory, theories of sexuality, and subjectivity and embodiment. She is currently immersed in a large research project of bodily transformations which involves exploring the many and varied ways in which bodies are transformed, and transformative practices are represented in different textual contexts. Her project thus includes analyses of transgender practices and procedures, 'non-mainstream' body modification, cosmetic surgery, 'self-mutilation' and voluntary amputation.
Books
Sullivan, Nikki (2003) A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; Melbourne: Circa ISBN 0958093830 (paper), 0748615970 (cloth); New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0814798403 (cloth), 081479841 (paper).
Sullivan, Nikki (2001) Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, Pleasure, Connecticut and London: Praeger ISBN 0275966755
Chapters in Books
Sullivan, Nikki (2007) "Smacking My Bitch Up: Queer or What?" in Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke (eds.) Critical Inqueery: A Reader, Freemantle: Black Swan Press (forthcoming).
Sullivan, Nikki (2007) "Incisive Bodies: Lolo, Lyotard, and The Exorbitant Law of Listening to the Inaudible", Margret Grebowicz (ed.) Gender After Lyotard, Albany: State University of New York Press (forthcoming).
Sullivan, Nikki (2006) "Transmogrification: (Un)Becoming Other(s)", in Susan Stryker & Stephen Whittle (eds.) The Transgender Studies Reader, New York: Routledge.
Refereed Papers
Sullivan, Nikki (2006) "Somatechnics, or Monstrosity Unbound", Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, 3:3. URL: http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=83
Sullivan, Nikki (2005) "Integrity, Mayhem and the Question of Self-demand Amputation", Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19:3.
Sullivan, Nikki (2004) "'It's as plain as the nose on his face': Michael Jackson, Body Modification, and the Question of Ethics", Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, 3:1. URL: http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=44
Sullivan, Nikki (2004) "Being-Exposed: 'The Poetics of Sex' and Other Matters of Tact", Transformations, vol.8. URL: http://transformations.cqu.edu.au/journal/issue_08/article_04.shtml
Sullivan, Nikki (2003) "Writing, Thinking, Being, 'with'", in Cultural Studies Review, vol. 3.
Sullivan, Nikki (2002) "Queer Material(ities): Lyotard, Language, and the Libidinal Body", Australian Feminist Studies, 17:37.
Sullivan, Nikki (2002) "Fleshly (Dis)Figuration, or How to Make the Body Matter", International Journal of Critical Psychology, vol. 5.
Sullivan, Nikki (1999) "Queer Pleasure: Some Thoughts", Social Semiotics, Special edition entitled "(Anti)Queer", edited by Alan McKee, 9:2
Sullivan, Nikki (1997) "Fleshing Out Pleasure: Canonization or Crucifixion", Australian Feminist Studies, 12:26.
Sullivan, Nikki (1995) "Illustrative Bodies: Subjectivities, Sociality, Skin Art", Social Semiotics, 5:1.
Edited Collections
Sullivan, Nikki & Nicole Anderson (2006) "Technological Interventions", Special Issue of Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, 3:3.
Sullivan, Nikki & Daniel Nourry (2005) "Body Politics", Special Issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19:3.
Sullivan, Nikki & Daniel Nourry (2004) "Bodily (Trans)Formations", Special Issue of Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, 3:1.
Other Publications
Sullivan, Nikki (2007) "Queer Theory", Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle (eds.) The Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Men and Masculinities, London & New York: Routledge (forthcoming).
Sullivan, (2007) "Tattoos", Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle (eds.) The Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Men and Masculinities, London & New York: Routledge (forthcoming).
Sullivan, Nikki (2005) "Somatechnics, or, The Social Inscription of Bodies and Selves", Australian Feminist Studies, 20:48.