Associate Professor of French at UM. His wife, Patricia, is an instructor of religion and pharmacy ethics at the university, and their two children, Marion, aged 12, and Colm, 11, are home schooled by their parents. Dr. O'Sullivan specializes in medieval language and literature and teaches courses at all levels of French language, literature, and linguistics. He is a native of Worcester, MA, and has lived and traveled extensively in France and all over Europe. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, he earned a Master's Degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. from Boston College. He enjoys cooking, especially French and Japanese food, reading historical fiction, coaching youth soccer, and practicing martial arts.