Juliet Flower MacCannellProfessor Emeritus, English Graduate Research Professor, UC Berkeley (1997) Consulting Graduate Professor, Stanford University (2000) |
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Research Interests |
Rousseau, Freud, Lacan, Psychoanlysis and Cultural and Critical theory (film, art, architecture, law); Enlightenment to Modern French literature and philosophy (Rousseau, Stendhal, Duras); contemporary art, political thought. | |
| URL | http://eHa.no-ip.org | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Woodrow Wilson; Irvine Faculty Fellow (twice); Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts; Artist in Residence, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston and Engelhard Foundation, Fellow, Advanced Study Center, International Studies Institute, U. of Michigan,Pi Delta Phi French National Honor Society Honorary Professor, Scandinavian Summer University, 1998 Hilliard Distinguished Professor (visiting), University of Nevada Reno, Spring 2004, Second Annual Cassal Lecturer in French, Institute for Advanced Study in Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, June 2006 Membership, IGRS London University, 2007 |
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| Appointments |
Visiting Graduate Professor at UC Berkeley (Rhetoric) 1997; Visiting Graduate Professor at Stanford University (French and Comparative Literature) 2000. Lacan School of San Francisco; Graduate School of Human Behavior and Wright Institute, Berkeley |
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Research Abstract |
Ethics in contemporary art , films, literature, and critical theory. Author of 60+ articles on such diverse matters as Space (Las Vegas, Sophie Calle, Cape Fear, architecture and psychoanalysis); the Law (Violence, Love, Perversion); Literary Theory (Benjamin, Bakhtin, Derrida, De Man, Kristeva, J. Hillis Miller); the aesthetics of film and video (Shadow of a Doubt, The Naked City, et al.); Politics :(Eichmann, Sade, Clinton, Rousseau; Butler, Zizek, Laclau); Freud, Lacan, Badiou. Articles in Third Text, Cultural Critique, Qui Parle, New Formations, Sites, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, PMLA, MLN, Umbr(a), Performance Research, Studies in Romanticism, Diacritics, Discourse, Semiotica, (a), Topoi, JPCS, Literature and Psychology, Strategies, Cardozo Law Review, | |
| Publications |
Author: The Hysteric's Guide to the Future Female Subject, University of Minnesota Press, 2000 |
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Author: The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy, London: Routledge 1991 |
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Author: Figuring Lacan: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious, Routledge and Nebraska, 1986 (Critics of the Twentieth Century Series) |
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Contributing Editor, The Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Psychoanalysis, Blackwell ( Ed. Elizabeth Wright) 1992 |
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Translator, The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, from the French original play by Hélène Cixous, U Nebraska Press, (European Women Writers Series) 1993 |
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Editor, The Other Perspective in Gender and Culture, Columbia University Press (Irvine Studies in the Humanities) 1990 |
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Editor, Thinking Bodies, Stanford U. Press, (Irvine Studies in the Humanities), 1993 |
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Editor, (a): the journal of culture and the unconscious, 2000-- |
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Editor, Femininity and Jouissance in the Politics of Postmodernity, Topoi, 1993 |
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co-author, The Time of the Sign: a Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture 1982 (in Spanish also) |
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Professional Societies |
Modern Language Association California Psychoanalytic Circle (co-chair) |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3300 | |
| Last updated | 10/12/2009 | |