Areas of Interest
- Critical theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Continental philosophy
- Poststucturalism
- Phenomenology
- Feminist and queer theory
Publications
Books
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2019) --- with Amy Allen
Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect (New York: Bloomsburry Press, 2018)
Penis Envy and Other BadFeelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life (New York, Columbia University Press, 2018)
The Ethics of Opting Out: Defiance and Affect in Queer Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017)
Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2016)
Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2015).
The Age of Scientific Sexism: How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2015).
The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012).
The Summons of Love (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009).
Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (New York: Other Press, 2006).
Biography
Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor