APCS Board of Directors
Professor Ricardo Ainslie is a psychologist - psychoanalyst who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, and Affiliate Faculty in American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies. He is also Adjunct Faculty at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute where for five years he taught candidates and fellows. He is a member of the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society as well as an ad hoc reviewer for a variety of journals including Cultural Anthropology. His publications and multimedia work range from clinical topics to the application of psychoanalytic ideas to socio-cultural issues. (more)
Professor Marshall Alcorn, APCS Treasurer, is Professor of English and Human Sciences at George Washington University. He was Excutive Director of APCS from 1995 to 2004. He is author of Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric Text, and Subjectivity, and Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire. He is Chair of the Psychoanalytic Theory for Scholars Program sponsored by the Washington Psychoanalytic Society and Chair of the Forum on Psychiatry and the Humanities, affiliated with the Washington School of Psychiatry. (more)
Professor C. Fred Alford, APCS Executive Director, is Professor of Government and Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of a dozen books and over fifty articles on moral psychology. His most recent book is Rethinking Freedom: Why Freedom Has Lost Its Meaning and What Can Be Done To Save It (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). (more)
Robin L. Bellinson is an advanced doctoral student at Kent State University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections of multiple theories of identity, mind, and affect, particularly the unconscious processes that shape individual subjectivity in late capitalism as manifested in postmodern literature and cultural texts.
Professor John Bird originally taught anthropology and then became a sociologist. He has experience of teaching in a wide range of areas: medical sociology; sociology of South Africa; sociology of religion. He is currently researching the sociology of mobile phone usage and the ways in which such usage effects how we relate to other people. In the past, he has researched the experiences of minority ethnic students in higher education; strategies for ethnic monitoring; the psycho-dynamics of exclusion from department. Research interests include studies of ethnic and other hatreds; racialized exclusions; approaches to computer mediated communications; sociologies of love. (more)
Professor Mark Bracher is cofounder of APCS, founding editor of PCS, and director of the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis at Kent State University. His research attempts to articulate pedagogical and other interventions into the psychological roots of social injustice. Publications include Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism; The Writing Cure: Psychoanalysis, Composition, and the Aims of Education; and Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation. (more)
Dr. Marilyn Charles is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, currently on staff at the Austen Riggs Center and in private practice in Stockbridge and Richmond, MA. She maintains affiliations with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, Michigan State University, and the National Training Program, and has been active in advocating for psychoanalytic training, practice, and applications. Interests include trauma, creativity, and nonverbal communications. She has presented and published extensively, and is the author of Patterns: Essential Building Blocks of Experience (2002), Learning from Experience: A Clinician’s Guide (2004), and Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and Metaphor (2004). (more)
Professor Simon Clarke is Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. His research interests include the interface between sociological and psychoanalytic theory; emotions; Kleinian and post Kleinian thinking, and the social application of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He has published numerous articles, essays and reviews on the psychoanalytic understanding of racism, ethnic hatred and social conflict. Simon is the author of Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (2003); From Enlightenment to Risk: Social Theory and Contemporary Society (2005) and Emotion, Politics and Society (2006) with Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson. Simon is Editor (with Lynne Layton) of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (Palgrave Macmillan Journals). He is currently directing a research project which forms part of the larger £5 Million ESRC 'social identities' programme, which looks at notions of home and identity in contemporary Britain. (more)
Professor and psychoanalytic psychotherapist Karl Figlio is a professor in, and Director of, the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. He is also a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and an Associate Member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy. (more)
Professor Jennifer Friedlander is the Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Assistant Professor of Art History at Pomona College. She is the author of Moving Pictures: Where the Police, the Press, and the Art Image Meet (Sheffield Hallam University Press 1998) and Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion (SUNY Press 2008). Her research engages feminist and psychoanalytic theories of the visual. (more)
Professor and psychoanalyst Martin Gliserman, has taught English at Rutgers University since 1971 and is also a psychoanalyst in private practice. His research focuses on semantic fields (and specifically the human body) in world anglophone novels from Robinson Crusoe forward. His research focuses on the semantic and syntactic unconscious; the project is called teXtRays. He is editor emeritus of American Imago (editor, 1985-2000), and author of Psychoanalysis, Language and the Body of the Text (U Press of Florida, 1996). (more)
Professor and clinical psychologist Janice Haaken is Professor of Psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, and a documentary filmmaker. She has published in the areas of psychoanalysis and feminism, the psychology of social movements, and trauma narratives. Haaken is author of Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory and the Perils of Looking Back, and the forthcoming Speaking Out: Women, War and the Global Economy. (more)
Professor and psychoanalytic psychotherapist Paul Hoggett is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Associate Member of the Lincon Clinic and Centre and Member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy. He co-edits the journal Organisational and Social Dynamics. His research interests focus on politics, the state and the emotions. Previous publications include Partisans in an Uncertain World (Free Association Books, 1992) and Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare (Macmillan, 2000). (more)
Professor Jan Jagodzinski is Professor, Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His most recent books include Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media (Palgrave McMillan, 2004), Music in Youth Culture: A Lacanian Approach (Palgrave McMillan, 2005), and the edited collection Pedagogical Desire: Authority, Seduction, Transference, and the Question of Ethics (Information Age Publishing, 2006). (more)
Professor Henry Krips is Andrew W. Mellon All Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chair of Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He researches in the areas of cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and science studies. He is author of The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory (Oxford, 1990), Fetish: An Erotics of Culture (Cornell, 1999), and is co-editor of Science, Reason and Rhetoric (Pittsburgh UP 1995) and Der Andere Schauplatz: Psychoanalyse, Kultur, Medien (Turia + Kant 2001). He is co-editor of the journal Culture Critique. Currently he is working on a new book on Politics and Psychoanalysis. (more)
Professor and psychoanalyst Lynne Layton is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice and has taught courses on psychoanalysis and culture, on gender and sexuality, and on popular culture at Harvard University; she currently teaches at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. With Simon Clarke, she is the Editor of PCS and is an associate editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (Analytic Press), and co-editor of three books: Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self (NYU Press); Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (Other Press); and Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Routledge).
Dr. Kareen Ror Malone is Professor of Psychology at University of West Georgia and is also on the Women’s Studies Faculty. She directs the doctoral program in Individual, Organizational, and Community Transformation: Consciousness and Society. Her research interest is Lacanian psychoanalysis within both social and clinical contexts, especially issues of gender, race, science, and North American “Psy” disciplines. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. She has co-edited After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious and The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian reader for psychologists, both from State University of New York Press. (more)
Professor Todd McGowan teaches critical theory and film in the English Department at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007, SUNY Press), The Impossible David Lynch (2007, Columbia University Press), and other works. (more)
Professor Hilary Neroni is an Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies in the English Department at the University of Vermont. She has published essays on women directors (in particular Jane Campion and Claire Denis) and a book, The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema, on issues surrounding theories of gender and violence in the cinema all from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. (more)
Professor Robert A. Paul is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Dean of Emory College, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. He maintains a private clinical practice, and holds an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. His professional interests within Anthropology include psychological anthropology, comparative religion, myth, and ritual, and the ethnography of Nepal, Tibet, the Himalayas, and South and Central Asia. His extensive scholarly publications include The Tibetan Symbolic World (University of Chicago Press, 1982) and a special issue of Cultural Anthropology, “Biological and Cultural Anthropology at Emory University”, which he edited. He served for many years as Editor of ETHOS: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and was President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology from 1992-1994. His book Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud’s Myth (Yale University press, 1996) received the Heinz Hartmann Award in Psychoanalysis, the L. Bryce Boyer Award in Psychological Anthropology, and the National Jewish Book Award in the area of Jewish Thought. (more)
Professor Ezequiel Peña is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas. His theoretical interests are situated at the intersections of culture, philosophy and psychology, drawing largely on cultural studies and the work of Jaques Lacan and Julia Kristeva. His primary research interests include understanding the relationship between the interior and social lives of U.S. ethnic minority subjects, with a particular emphasis on Mexican American (Chicano) political subjectivity. Within these parameters, his research investigates the intersections of ethnicity, class, gender and sexual orientation. Exploring the politics and history of the multicultural psychology movement and of the medicalization of problems of living are also among his scholarly pursuits. His applied research interests include developing local clinically-oriented research projects that address the needs of underrepresented groups. (more)
Professor Mark Pizzato (MFA, PhD) writes books and articles applying Lacanian psychoanalysis and neuroscience to drama, ritual, sports, theatre, film, and television. These include Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (1998), Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (2005), and Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (2006). He is Professor of Theatre at UNC-Charlotte, where he teaches theatre history, drama, performance theory, playwriting, screenwriting, and various topics in film studies. His stageplays are available through Aran Press. Short films, produced from his screenplays, have won New York Film Festival and Minnesota Community Television awards.
Professor and psychoanalyst Esther Rashkin is Professor of French & Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Modern Dance at the University of Utah. She also maintains a private clinical practice in Salt Lake City. She is the author of Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative (Princeton, 1992), Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture (SUNY Press, 2008), and articles on psychoanalytic theory and practice and on the intersections between psychoanalysis and literature, film, dance, and popular culture. She is a former Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Academic Liaison and member of its Fellowship Committee. (more)
Professor Robert Samuels has a Doctorate in Psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VIII and a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University. He is the author of Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality, Writing Prejudices, and the forthcoming Integrating Hypertextual Subjects. He is a Lecturer in the English department at UCLA and the President of the University of California, American Federation of Teachers Union.
Professor Charles Shepherdson is is a Senior Specialist for 2006-11 with the Fulbright Program under the United States Department of State. He currently holds a position in Asia as National Science Council Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University. In the United States he is Professor of English at the State University of New York (Albany), where he is also a member of the board of SUNY Press, and editor of the book series "Insinuations: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis," which has produced a dozen volumes. He is the author of Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis (Routledge), Lacan and the Limits of Language (Fordham), The Epoch of the Body (in press with Stanford) and a collection of essays in Serbo-Croatian published as a special issue of Zenske Studije (Women's Studies), and a forthcoming collection in Korean. He has held fellowships with the Henry A. Luce Foundation, the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia, and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research at Brown University. He has also had grant support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he was appointed in 1998 as a Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1998, he received the Jens Jacobsen Award for his work on race, genetics, and psychoanalysis from the International Society for Universalism (a division of the Polish Academy of Sciences); in 2003, he was William P. Huffington Scholar-in-Residence at Miami University of Ohio; in 2004, he held the Aristotelian Chair in the Liberal Arts at Saint Thomas Aquinas College in New York, and also received a Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Achievement from Grinnell College. He has recently served as Chair of the MLA's Division of Psychological Approaches to Literature, and was elected to the MLA's Delegate Assembly (2003-06). He is a founding member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, and is currently working on developing academic exchange around psychoanalysis and culture in the context of East Asia. He works in contemporary literary and cultural theory at the intersections of literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. (more)
Professor and psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Ghent and Head of the Department of Psychoanalysis. He is a practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the European School for Psychoanalysis. He is author of Does Woman Exist?, Love in a Time of Loneliness: Three Essays on Drive and Desire, and Beyond Gender: From Subject to Drive.
Professor Jean Wyatt is professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College. Her most recent book is Risking Difference: Identification, Race and Commounity in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism (SUNY Press, 2004). Among her recent articles are: "Love's Time and the Reader: Ethical Effects of Nachtraglichkeit in Toni Morrison's Love." Narrative 16.2 (May 2008). "Patricia Hill Collins's Black Sexual Politics and the Genealogy of the Strong Black Woman." Studies in Gender and Sexuality 9.1 (Winter 2008). "Thinking the Other-Centered Self with Jean Laplanche: The Enigmatic Signifier and its Political Uses." Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 11.2 (August 2006). (more)