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Delaney Sullivan
| Title: | PhD Student Graduate Teaching Assistant |
| Department: | English Language and Literature McCausland College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | dls4@email.sc.edu |
Pronouns:
she/her
Education:
Bachelor’s of Arts in English from the University of Florida
Master’s of Arts in English from Kansas State University
Field of Interest:
Children’s and adolescent literature and culture, food studies, gender studies, 20th and 21st century American literature, popular culture
Biography:
Delaney is a first-year doctoral student, working to earn her Ph.D. in English and
American Literature. She has produced work on Disney studies, childhood nostalgia,
feminism and democracy in adolescent texts, and now researches picture books and visual
narratives. Delaney has presented at conferences for the Children’s Literature Association
(ChLA), Popular Culture Association (PCA), and Kansas Association of Teachers in English
(KATE). Prior to graduate studies, Delaney worked in college journalism writing for
women’s magazines. She is also a graduate teaching assistant in the First-Year English
program, teaching ENGL 101 and 102. Delaney has taught courses in expository writing,
rhetoric and composition, and children’s literature. She earned her bachelor’s degree
in English from the University of Florida in 2022, writing her undergraduate thesis
on emerging themes in queer YA literature, and earned her master’s degree in English
from Kansas State University in 2024.