Assoc. Professor

Email: nikki.sullivan@mq.edu.au

Office: Y3A 159

Phone: (02) 9850 2159

Undergraduate Teaching: CUL222, CUL322, CUL326

Biography

Research Interests

Somatechnics

Body modification

health law

medicalisation

sexuality

corporeal feminism

continental philosophy

genealogy

histories of crime

Publications

Sullivan, N, 'Queer Theory' In The Encyclopedia of Political Theory, edited by Mark Bevir, London: Sage, 2010

Sullivan, Nikki and Samantha (eds.), Somatechnics: Queering The Technologisation of Bodies, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009

Sullivan, N, 'Queering the Somatechnics of BIID', (invited) In Body Integrity Identity Disorder: Psychological, Neurobiological, Ethical and Legal Aspects, edited by A. Stirn, A. Thiel, and S. Oddo, Lengeritch, Germany: Pabst Publishing, 2009

Sullivan, N, and Susan Stryker 'King's Member, Queen's Body: Transsexual Surgery, Self-Demand Amputation, and the Somatechnics of Sovereign Power' In N. Sullivan and S. Murray (eds.) Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009

Sullivan, N, 'Smacking my Bitch Up: Queer or What?', In The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory, edited by N. Giffney and M. O'Rourke, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009

Sullivan, N, 'The Somatechnics of Bodily Inscription', Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Treatment, Research, 10 (3):129-41. Special issue 'Body Modification' edited by M. Dimen and M. Suchet, 2009

Sullivan, N, 'Transsomatechnics and the Matter of "Genital Modifications"', Australian Feminist Studies, 24 (60): 275-86. Special issue 'Genital Modification', edited by S. Murray, W. Njambi, and N. Sulllivan, 2009

Sullivan, N, 'The Somatechnics of Intersexuality', GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 15 (2): 313-27. Special issue 'Intersex and After', edited by Iain Morland, 2009

Sullivan, N, 'Tattooing: The Bio-Political Inscription of Bodies and Selves', in Cultural Theory and Everyday Practice, edited by N. Anderson & K. Schlunke, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

Sullivan, N, 'Dis-orienting Paraphilias? Disability, Desire, and the Question of (Bio)Ethics', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 5 (2-3): 183-92 . Special issue 'Disability and Bioethics', edited by Shelley Tremain, 2008

Sullivan, N, 'The Role of Medicine in the (Trans)Formation of 'Wrong' Bodies', Body & Society. 14 (1): 103-114. Special issue 'Surgery and Embodiment: Carving Out Subjects', edited by J. Doyle & K. Roen, 2008

Sullivan, N, 'The Medical Restoration of the Hymen' In The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body, edited by V. Pitts-Taylor. Westport, CT.: Greenwood., 2008

Sullivan, N, 'Labiaplasty' In The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body, edited by V. Pitts-Taylor. Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 2008

Sullivan, N, 'Vaginal Tightening Surgery' In The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body, edited by V. Pitts-Taylor, Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 2008

Sullivan, N, 'Lolo Ferrari's Breasts' In The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body, edited by V. Pitts-Taylor. Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 2008

Sullivan, N, 'Michael Jackson's Face' In The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body, edited by V. Pitts-Taylor. Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 2008

Sullivan, N, 'Incisive Bodies: Lolo, Lyotard and the Exorbitant Law of Listening to the Inaudible', In Gender After Lyotard, edited by M. Grebowicz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007

Sullivan, N, '"The price we pay for our common good?": Genital Modification and the Somatechnologies of Cultural (In)Difference', Social Semiotics, 17 (3): 395-409. Special Issue on "Somatechnics: Reconfiguring Body Modification", edited by Jessica Cadwallader and Samantha Murray, 2007

Sullivan, N, 'Queer Theory' In The Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Men and Masculinities, edited by M. Flood, J. Kegan Gardiner, B. Pease and K. Pringle. London & New York: Routledge, 2007

Sullivan, N, 'Tattooing' In The Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Men and Masculinities, edited by M. Flood, J. Kegan Gardiner, B. Pease and K. Pringle. London & New York: Routledge, 2007

Sullivan, N, 'Transmogrification: (Un)becoming Other(s)' In The Transgender Studies Reader, edited by S. Stryker and S. Whittle, New York: Routledge, 2006

Sullivan, N, 'Somatechnics, or Monstrosity Unbound', Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture 3 (3). Online: available [http://scan.net.au/]., 2006

Sullivan, N, 'Integrity, Mayhem and the Question of Self-demand Amputation', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 19 (3): 325-333, 2005

Sullivan, N, 'Somatechnics, or, The Social Inscription of Bodies and Selves' Australian Feminist Studies 20 (48): 363-366, 2005

Sullivan, N, '"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). Online: available [http://scan.net.au/], 2004

Sullivan, N, 'Being Exposed: "The Poetics of Sex" and other Matters of Tact', Transformations: Online Journal of Region, Culture, and Society 9. Online: available [http://transformations.cqu.edu.au/index.shtml]. Special Issue on "Regions of Sexuality", edited by Iain Moreland and Wendy O'Brien, 2004

Sullivan, N, 'Writing, Thinking, Being, "with"', Cultural Studies Review 9 (1): 51-59. Special Issue on "Affective Community" ed. Chris Healy, Stephen Muecke, and Linnell Secomb, 2003

Sullivan, N, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. New York: New York University Press, 2003

Sullivan, N, 'Queer Material(ities): Lyotard, Language, and the Libidinal Body', Australian Feminist Studies 17 (37): 43-54. Special Issue on "Materials for Feminism", edited by Brigid Rooney, 2002

Sullivan, N, (2002) 'Fleshly (Dis)Figuration, or How to Make the Body Matter', International Journal of Critical Psychology 5: 12-29, 2002

Sullivan, N, Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, Pleasure. Connecticut and London: Praeger, 2001

Sullivan, N, 'Queer Pleasure: Some Thoughts', Social Semiotics, 9:2, 1999

Sullivan, N, 'Fleshing Out Pleasure: Canonization or Crucifixion', Australian Feminist Studies, 12:26, 1997

Sullivan, N, 'Illustrative Bodies: Subjectivities, Sociality, Skin Art', Social Semiotics, 5:1, 1995