Sean O’Sullivan

Sean O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of English, Director of Project Narrative, and member of the Film Studies Program at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Mike Leigh (2011), a volume in the Contemporary Film Directors series from the University of Illinois Press. His articles on serial narrative and television include such topics as The Sopranos and episodic storytelling; modernist structure in Mad Men, Deadwood, and Charles Dickens; the showrunners Ingmar Bergman and Krzysztof Kieslowski; and third seasons. His current book project examines the 13-episode “sonnet season” in recent American television, tracing the narrative developments of this serial genre from pilots through series finales. He can be reached at osullivan.15@osu.edu.