Associate Professor, MA Program Director
Office: Clemens 415
Phone number: 645-0687
E-mail address: slm26@buffalo.edu
Interests:
Psychoanalytic theory; continental philosophy; 19th and 20th Century European literatures; translation studies.
Courses taught:
Graduate:
- Intersubjectivity: Derrida, Lacan
- Literary Criticism, Not Without Psychoanalysis
- Psychoanalysis and War
- Derrida and the Death Drive
Undergraduate:
- Freud, literature, and the social bond
- Death and the Limits of Representation
- Criticism
- Psychology and Literature (Freud)
Selected publications:
Book:
- War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits (Fordham University Press, 2014)
Essays:
- “Lacan at the Limits of Legal Theory: Law, Desire, and Sovereign Violence,” in Penumbra: Counter-Histories of the Present, ed. Sigi Jöttkandt (Victoria, Australia: Re.press, 2013).
- “Literature and the Right to Marriage,” theoretical introduction to special issue of Diacritics, 35. 4 (Winter 2005): 3-22.
- “Open Letter to the Enemy: Jean Genet’s Holy War,” Diacritics 35.4, (Summer 2004): 85-113.
Translations:
- Étienne Balibar, Citizen Subject and Other Essays on Political Anthropology (Fordham University Press, in process)
- Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage (Fordham University Press, 2012).
- Jean-Luc Nancy, Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Co-translated with Jason Smith.
