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Brief Biography
Growing up in Oregon
My childhood is now the subject of a
book (written by my father, William L. Sullivan). As a kid and teenager, I spent every summer at a log cabin in the Oregon woods, without electricity or plumbing. My parents built this cabin by hand without the use of power tools.
My mother, a watercolor artist, sparked my interest in sketching outdoors.
Undergrad and beyond
I left high school a year and a half early with a National Merit Scholarship,
and enrolled at the nearby University of Oregon. My interest in languages and literature soon led me into the German
and Scandinavian Focus major. I had a certain amount of personal interest in Scandinavian culture as well, because my grandfather's parents
were Danish immigrants. My award-winning B.A. thesis combined historical research and creative writing.
In 2002, I moved down the coast to Berkeley and began life as a grad student in Linguistics.
I earned my M.A. in 2004, advanced to candidacy in 2005, and earned my Ph.D. in Fall 2007.
I then began a postdoctoral research position at the Autonomous University of Barcelona conducting corpus, typological and experimental research
as part of the multinational ALEAR project.
I'm continuing this research as a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at the University of Murcia.
I'm excited about moving to Australia in June, and working as a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
at the University of Queensland.
