Faculty

Tim Dean

Professor of English; Director, Humanities Institute
Office: Clemens 411
Phone number: 645-0685
E-mail address: tjdean@buffalo.edu
Personal website: buffalo.edu/~tjdean/

 

Interests:

Queer Theory; Psychoanalysis; Poetry and Poetics; Modernism; LGBT Studies; Literary Theory; Cultural Studies

Courses taught:

  • Basic Concepts in Psychoanalysis (grad seminar)
  • Queer Theory (grad seminar)
  • Poetics of Difficulty (grad seminar)
  • Foucault (grad seminar)
  • Literature and Gender (undergrad)
  • Modern Poetry and Impersonality (undergrad)
  • Poetry and Madness (undergrad)

Work in progress:

Three books in various stages of completion:

  • “Modernism and the Ethics of Impersonality”
  • “The Otherness of Art”
  • “What Is Psychoanalytic Thinking? Essays on Gender, Sexuality, and the Unconscious”

See personal webpage for more information.

Selected publications:

Books

  • A Time for the Humanities:  Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (Forham University Press, 2008)
  • Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press)

  • A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (Fordham University Press, 2008)

  • Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (coed. with Christopher Lane; University of Chicago Press 2001)
  • Beyond Sexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
  • Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious (Macmillan 1991)

Articles in Critical Inquiry; Diacritics; October; Raritan; Oxford Literary Review; American Literary History; and elsewhere.