Dr
Keith
O'Sullivan
Primary Department
School of English
Role
Head of School
Work Area/Key Responsibilities
English
Phone number:
Before joining the School of English, he was senior lecturer and head of English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines. At tertiary level, he has taught English on the BEd programme at Church of Ireland College of Education; the BA, BEd and MA programmes at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra; the MPhil (in children's literature) programme at Trinity College Dublin; and the PGDipEd programme at University College Dublin.
He is a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature, a member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, and has been a past member of the board of directors of Children’s Books Ireland. He has also served as a member of the judging panel for the Reading Association of Ireland Book of the Year Awards and as chair of the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Awards.
He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (Homerton College, Centre for Research in Children's Literature); the inaugural David Almond research fellow (Newcastle University and Seven Stories); a recipient of a Friends of the Princeton Library research grant; and, an Irish Research Council grant-awardee (with Dr Pádraic Whyte, TCD).
He is currently DCU co-principal investigator, with Dr Áine McGillicuddy (SALIS), for the proposed 'G-Book 3' project (which aims to develop audience engagement activities for the social and emotional education of EU teens through gender-positive literature and digital technology). This proposed €1.4 million project (which is seeking co-funding from the European Commission and is led by Centro MeTRa, Department of Interpretation and Translation, University of Bologna) aims to discover, explore, promote, and disseminate literature that enables young readers to reflect on their identities and question stereotypes, bias and perceived norms around gender (see g-book.eu).
01 700
6099
Email Address
keith.osullivan@dcu.ie
Campus
All Hallows
Room Number
AHC S233
Academic biography
Keith O'Sullivan is an associate professor and deputy chair of the MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature degree programme in the School of English. From 2021 to 2024, he served as head of school.
Before joining the School of English, he was senior lecturer and head of English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines. At tertiary level, he has taught English on the BEd programme at Church of Ireland College of Education; the BA, BEd and MA programmes at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra; the MPhil (in children's literature) programme at Trinity College Dublin; and the PGDipEd programme at University College Dublin.
He is a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature, a member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, and has been a past member of the board of directors of Children’s Books Ireland. He has also served as a member of the judging panel for the Reading Association of Ireland Book of the Year Awards and as chair of the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Awards.
He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (Homerton College, Centre for Research in Children's Literature); the inaugural David Almond research fellow (Newcastle University and Seven Stories); a recipient of a Friends of the Princeton Library research grant; and, an Irish Research Council grant-awardee (with Dr Pádraic Whyte, TCD).
He is currently DCU co-principal investigator, with Dr Áine McGillicuddy (SALIS), for the proposed 'G-Book 3' project (which aims to develop audience engagement activities for the social and emotional education of EU teens through gender-positive literature and digital technology). This proposed €1.4 million project (which is seeking co-funding from the European Commission and is led by Centro MeTRa, Department of Interpretation and Translation, University of Bologna) aims to discover, explore, promote, and disseminate literature that enables young readers to reflect on their identities and question stereotypes, bias and perceived norms around gender (see g-book.eu).
Keith is happy to receive applications for doctoral research, especially in the following areas: young adult/children's literature, contemporary fantasy, multimodal texts, Romanticism, poetry, and collections and archives.