Faculty

CO-DIRECTORS

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

Elissa Marder
Professor
(Joint appointment in the Departments of French and Comparative Literature)
emarder@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
Associate 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
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 Associate 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 Philosophy
(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