Office: 404
Clemens
Office Hours:
Phone: 645-2575 ext. 1033
E-mail: jkcopjec@acsu.buffalo.edu

Professor, Departments of English and Comparative
Literature
Director, Center
for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture
Joan Copjec has an M.A. in Contemporary Literature from the University of Wisconsin (Madison); a Dipl. In Film Studies from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London; and a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University. She is the author of two books: Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (MIT, 1994) and Imagine There’s No Woman; Ethics and Sublimation (MIT, 2002). A former editor of the influential journal, October, she has also edited numerous books, including: October: The First Decade (MIT, 1987; with A. Michelson, R. Krauss, D. Crimp); Jacques Lacan’s Television (Norton, 1990); Shades of Noir (Verso, 1993); Supposing the Subject (Verso, 1994); Radical Evil (Verso, 1996); and Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity (Verso, 1999, with M. Sorkin). Her primary fields of research are psychoanalysis, film and film theory, feminism, and art and architecture. She has taught intermittently at various schools of architecture: the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (NYC); Sci-Arc (LA); and the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at the City College (NYC)
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