Dr. Courtney Sullivan was born in Wichita, KS, and attended grade school and high school in Dallas, TX. She majored in French and Communications at Loyola University in New Orleans, LA. The University of Texas awarded her a Ph.D. in French literature in May 2003.
She is a nineteenth-century specialist and her work examines representations of the courtesan in the nineteenth-century novel and in the autobiographical writings by demi-mondaines. In addition to nineteenth-century literature, she also has written on filmic adaptations of French novels and post-colonial works, Francophone women writers, gender studies, and cultural studies. She loves to travel, dance salsa and tango, swim, and go to the cinema.
