FEATURED AUTHOR

Megan Sullivan

Associate Dean, Director, Associate Professor
Boston University

Megan Sullivan writes about the impact of parental incarceration on children and families. Her current book, co-edited with Denise Johnston, is Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138183223 and 9781138183216.

Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Education, Health and Social Care

Biography

Sullivan won the Between the Lines Literary Journal Anthony Award for Prose for her essay “My Father’s Incarceration” https://www.hnu.edu/betweenthelines/issue-2/sullivan.php, and she writes on incarceration and families for venues such as WBUR’s online opinion page Cognoscenti http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2015/06/01/children-of-incarcerated-parents-megan-sullivan. She also coedited an issue of Barnard College’s Scholar & Feminist Online on children and incarceration http://sfonline.barnard.edu/children/.

Sullivan has been a featured guest on PACIFICA Radio’s “The Prison Show” http://kpft.org/prison-show and won an honorable mention in memoir for the Soulmaking Literary Awards, a program of the National League of Pen Women, Inc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN-lVVLqfWQ.
Sullivan’s previous works include Women in Northern Ireland: Cultural Studies and Material Conditions http://upf.com/book.asp?id=SULLIF99 and Irish Women and Cinema: 1980-1990 https://books.google.com/books/about/Irish_Women_and_Cinema.html?id=1awKAQAAMAAJ. You can contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter @megan_msullvan.

Education

Ph.D. University of Rhode Island

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Children of Incarcerated Parents, Incarceration and Families, Literature, Education, Disability Studies

Books

Featured Title