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  • Emma Lieber

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    liebere@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street

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    Emma Lieber

    Profile

    Emma Lieber is a literary scholar and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. Her work focuses on psychoanalytic theory (Freud and Lacan); psychoanalysis and literature; novel theory and literary realism (particularly the nineteenth-century Russian and Victorian novel); reality television; queer theory and gender studies; and autotheory and other genres of self-writing.

    Degrees Held

    Ph.D. Columbia University, 2011
    B.A. Yale University, 2002

     

    Recent Publications

    The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury 2020)

    The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan 2021), co-edited with Anna Fishzon.

     

    Research Interests

    Psychoanalysis and literature, queer theory, gender/sexuality, authotheory/self-writing, Russian literature, the novel/novel theory, realism, reality television

    Awards And Honors

    ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, Rutgers University (2013-2015)

    Whiting Foundation Fellowship (2010-2011)

    Current Courses

    Ind Senior Project

    Ind Senior Project (Fall 2020)

    Psychoanalysis & Literature

    Psychoanalysis & Literature (Fall 2020)

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