Shannon Sullivan Explained

Shannon Sullivan
Birth Place:	United States
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Writer, professor

Shannon Sullivan is chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She teaches and writes on feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy.

Sullivan is the author of Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism (2001),^[1] Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (2006),^[2] Good White People: The problem with middle-class white anti-racism (2014)^[3] and White Privilege (2019).^[4]

She is co-editor of several books, including Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (2007).^[5]

Sullivan's recent work on the physiology of experience within oppressive structures, for example how racist or sexist encounters affect the physical body, draws on affect theory. She cited Friedrich Nietzsche, whom she called "an affect theorist before affect theory became popular," and his thinking about guilt, as having a large influence on her work. She also counted William James as a significant influence.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Reviews of Living across and through Skins:
   • Hill . Nathan . Fall 2001 . 4 . Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society . 40320872 . 674–676 . none . 37.
   • Ahmed . Sara . August 2002 . 10.1177/146470002762492132 . 2 . Feminist Theory . 230–232 . none . 3.
   • McGough . Sarah M. . 1 . Thirdspace . Review . 3 . 2003.
   • Hamington . Maurice . Spring 2003 . 1 . NWSA Journal . 4316962 . 196–201 . none . 15.
   • Clarke . Melissa . June 2004 . 3 . Philosophy in Review . Review . 24.
2. Reviews of Revealing Whiteness:
   • Curry . Tommy J. . 10.5840/saap2006341058 . 105 . Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy . 43–47 . none . 34 . 2006.
   • Stubblefield . Anna . April–June 2008 . 2 . Hypatia . 25483182 . 190–193 . none . 23.
   • Crain . Crystallee Rene . April 2009 . 2 . Theory in Action . Review . 2.
   • Jessica Wahman . Wahman . Jessica . 2 . PhiloSOPHIA . 266–270 . Review . 1 . 2011.
3. Reviews of Good White People:
   • Shotwell . Alexis . 10.5840/philtoday2016604134 . 4 . Philosophy Today . 1003–1013 . Philosophy Documentation Center . The Problem with Loving Whiteness: A Response to S. Sullivan's Good White People . 60 . 2016.
   • Sundstrom . Ronald R. . 10.5840/philtoday2016604135 . 4 . Philosophy Today . 1015–1021 . Comments on Shannon Sullivan's Good White People . 60 . 2016.
   • Bailey . Alison . Winter 2016 . 1 . PhiloSOPHIA . 142–145 . Review . 6 . 10.1353/phi.2016.0000 . 151674083.
4. Review of White Privilege:
   • Grillo . Barbara . May 2020 . 10.1080/01419870.2020.1759814 . Ethnic and Racial Studies . 487–488 . none . 44 . 3.
5. Review of Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance:
   • Medina . José . 4 . The Journal of Speculative Philosophy . 25670731 . 313–316 . New Series . none . 22 . 2008. 10.2307/25670731 .
6. Sullivan . Shannon . Branfield . Shannon . Ruwen Chang . Saperstein . J. D. . 2019 . Gut Feelings: Race and the Embodied Self: An Interview with Shannon Sullivan . DisClosure . 28 . 1–12 . 10.13023/disclosure.28.11 . EBSCO Host.