Faculty

DIRECTOR

Noëlle McAfee
Professor 
(Primary appointment in the Department of Philosophy and secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
noelle.c.mcafee@emory.edu

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Steven Levy:
Bernard C. Holland Professor of Psychiatry
(Emory School of Medicine)
Training and Supervising Analyst
(Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute)

Robert A. Paul:
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies
(Department of Anthropology)
Director and Training and Supervising Analyst
(Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute)

Elissa Marder: Professor of French and Comparative Literature
(Department of French and Italian)

CORE FACULTY

Angelika Bammer:
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature 
(Department of Comparative Literature)

Chad Córdova:
Assistant Professor, French 
(Department of French and Italian)
Areas of interest: Melancholia, metapsychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, and Freud

Martha Grace Duncan:
Professor, Law
(School of Law)
Areas of interest: Interpreting remorse and remorselessness, meanings of criminal behavior, functions of criminality for the law-abiding, and positive images of prison

Shoshana Felman:
Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French
(Department of Comparative Literature)
Areas of interest: Psychoanalysis and trauma, psychoanalysis and testimony, literature/philosophy/psychoanalysis, Freud, and Lacan

Andrew Furman:
Professor
(Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
Associate Teaching Analyst
Co-Director, Lister Society
(Emory University School of Medicine)

Elizabeth Goodstein:
Professor of English and the Liberal Arts
Core Faculty of Comparative Literature
Associated Faculty of German, History, and Philosophy
Areas of interest: Cultural and critical theory, psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary inquiry, emotion regimes, and conflict resolution

Timothy Holland:
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies
(Department of Film and Media Studies)
Areas of interest: History of psychoanalytic film theory, especially as it pertains to narcissim, pleasure, and identification; Abraham and Torok; the uncanny

John Johnston:
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(Department of English)

Walter Kalaidjian:
Professor of English
(Department of English)

Steven Levy:
Bernard C. Holland Professor of Psychiatry
(Emory School of Medicine)
Training and Supervising Analyst
(Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute)

Valérie Loichot:
Professor of French and English
(Department of French and Italian)
Areas of interest: Fanon, Glissant, Trauma, and Colonialism

Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas:
Assistant Professor of Spanish
(Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

Elissa Marder:
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
(Department of French and Italian)

David Marriott:
Charles T. Winship Professor of Philosophy
(Department of Philosophy)
Areas of interest: Fanon, Lacan, critical philosophy of race, aesthetics and poetics, comparative Francophone Caribbean literature and literary theory, and the literary and visual cultures of modernism

Noëlle McAfee:
Professor 
(Primary appointment in the Department of Philosophy and secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
Areas of Interest: Psychoanalysis and politics, critical theory, Klein, Winnicott, and Kristeva

Claire Nouvet:
Associate Professor of French and Italian
(Department of French and Italian)

Linette Park:
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Department of African American Studies)
Areas of interest: Freud, Lacan, critical black theories/Black Studies, carceral studies, gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, philosophy of law, visual art and film, and the afterlife of slavery and lynching in North America

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva:
Associate Professor
(Department of Anthropology)
Areas of Interest: Cross-Cultural studies of mental well-being, subjectivity, loneliness, suicide, empathy; qualitative studies of contemplative practices; Japanese Naikan practice; compassion-based contemplative studies; religion and spiritual healing

Robert A. Paul:
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies
(Department of Anthropology)
Training and Supervising Analyst
(Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute)

Stefanie Speanburg:
Adjunct Professor
(Smith College School for Social Work)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (affiliated faculty WGSS; PSP))
Director, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst
(Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute)

Calvin Warren:
Associate Professor
(Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Department of African American Studies) 

Cynthia Willett:
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philsophy
(Department of Philosophy)
Areas of interest: Music, humor studies, and animal studies

Elizabeth Wilson:
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
Areas of interest: Freud, Klein, Ferenczi, Winnicott, feminist and queer theory, and affect theory