Emma Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3867175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2439-6682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Making my voice and owning its future
This article explores disabled experience and the future of technologies relating to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This field includes people's use of AAC devices, typically in combination with other modes of communication, including vocalising, revoicing and body language. Such devices have speech technology and digital voices built into them and we will consider who could be said to have ownership of these technologies. We w…
Tim Renkow's Jerk
This paper examines how the British BBC 3 sitcom Jerk (2019-2023) challenges contemporary liberal orthodoxy, mobilising the comic license of its disabled protagonist to interrogate the social prescriptions that breed both hypocrisy and opportunism. Jerk examines the ways in which the codified structures of 'correct politics' can ultimately work against progressive aims: the 'politics of injury' defining minority groups by their trauma alone, and …
Joking about Jihad
This beautifully written and well-researched book traces the tentative emergence of comic material addressing religious fundamentalism in the aftermath of the advances made by Islamists following the Arab Spring, the Syrian Civil War, and the rise of the Islamic State (IS). As the authors state, this material and “the [Arab] comedians and comedy writers responsible for creating it, crossed a cultural Rubicon, exposing Arabic-speaking media audien…
Humour
Humour in the Arts
This collection is an unusually coherent and well-managed collection of articles, suggesting a clear editorial vision and close collaboration between the editors and their contributors. Given the ambition of the book—“to demonstrate the usefulness of reading texts through a framework of humour—culturally and historically, from antiquity to modernity” (1), this coherence is fortunate. The introduction argues for the necessity of examining “the rol…
The Role of Executive Functions in Socioeconomic Attainment Gaps
The socioeconomic attainment gap in mathematics starts early and increases over time. This study aimed to examine why this gap exists. Four-year-olds from diverse backgrounds were randomly allocated to a brief intervention designed to improve executive functions (N = 87) or to an active control group (N = 88). The study was preregistered and followed CONSORT guidelines. Executive functions and mathematical skills were measured at baseline, 1 week…
Comic license in contemporary African American visual art
Given a dominant visual discourse predicated upon stereotypes concerning menace, sexualisation, and abjection, African American visual production is often obligated to effect a correction by producing responsible, even didactic art. While this imperative remains a potent force, in this paper I focus upon work that is determinedly irreverent, even comic in its forthright address of race. My case studies are three African American artists: William …
“A little theatrical but mostly athletic”
By attending to the inherent flux of sexual fantasy, Miranda July’s first novel The First Bad Man reveals a mobile and mutable erotics capable of generating an enlarged range of self-identification and relational intimacy, far from any essentialist assumptions of stable or coherent sexual identity. July focuses specifically upon role-play as the means to unpack the normative categories of hetero/homosexuality, masculinity and femininity, celebrat…
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“A little theatrical but mostly athletic”
By attending to the inherent flux of sexual fantasy, Miranda July’s first novel The First Bad Man reveals a mobile and mutable erotics capable of generating an enlarged range of self-identification and relational intimacy, far from any essentialist assumptions of stable or coherent sexual identity. July focuses specifically upon role-play as the means to unpack the normative categories of hetero/homosexuality, masculinity and femininity, celebrat…
Humour
Humour in the Arts
This collection is an unusually coherent and well-managed collection of articles, suggesting a clear editorial vision and close collaboration between the editors and their contributors. Given the ambition of the book—“to demonstrate the usefulness of reading texts through a framework of humour—culturally and historically, from antiquity to modernity” (1), this coherence is fortunate. The introduction argues for the necessity of examining “the rol…
The Role of Executive Functions in Socioeconomic Attainment Gaps
The socioeconomic attainment gap in mathematics starts early and increases over time. This study aimed to examine why this gap exists. Four-year-olds from diverse backgrounds were randomly allocated to a brief intervention designed to improve executive functions (N = 87) or to an active control group (N = 88). The study was preregistered and followed CONSORT guidelines. Executive functions and mathematical skills were measured at baseline, 1 week…
Comic license in contemporary African American visual art
Given a dominant visual discourse predicated upon stereotypes concerning menace, sexualisation, and abjection, African American visual production is often obligated to effect a correction by producing responsible, even didactic art. While this imperative remains a potent force, in this paper I focus upon work that is determinedly irreverent, even comic in its forthright address of race. My case studies are three African American artists: William …
Joking about Jihad
This beautifully written and well-researched book traces the tentative emergence of comic material addressing religious fundamentalism in the aftermath of the advances made by Islamists following the Arab Spring, the Syrian Civil War, and the rise of the Islamic State (IS). As the authors state, this material and “the [Arab] comedians and comedy writers responsible for creating it, crossed a cultural Rubicon, exposing Arabic-speaking media audien…
Making my voice and owning its future
This article explores disabled experience and the future of technologies relating to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This field includes people's use of AAC devices, typically in combination with other modes of communication, including vocalising, revoicing and body language. Such devices have speech technology and digital voices built into them and we will consider who could be said to have ownership of these technologies. We w…
Tim Renkow's Jerk
This paper examines how the British BBC 3 sitcom Jerk (2019-2023) challenges contemporary liberal orthodoxy, mobilising the comic license of its disabled protagonist to interrogate the social prescriptions that breed both hypocrisy and opportunism. Jerk examines the ways in which the codified structures of 'correct politics' can ultimately work against progressive aims: the 'politics of injury' defining minority groups by their trauma alone, and …
Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Comedy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)