December 1, 2003                       CLAIRE KAHANE    -- CURRICULUM VITAE  (short)

                                                                        

Address                               2115 Eunice Street

                                                Berkeley, CA 94709

                                                                                               

Phone:                                  (510) 524-9708] 

                                                                                                                                                               

EMAIL: crkahane@uclink.berkeley.edu

 

Education:

                Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, June, 1975

                Major: English and American Literature

Thesis: A Rage of Vision: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Flannery O'Connor's Fiction

                Candidate, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, 2001-

 

Employment History:

Research Candidate in  psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, 2001- .

                Clinical intern - psychotherapist at the Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA., 2002-2003.

                Visiting Scholar, English Dept., UC Berkeley,  Fall, 2002-

                Visiting Professor, English Dept., UC Berkeley, Spring, 2002

                Visiting Scholar, English Dept., UC Berkeley, Spring, Fall, 2001

                Visiting Professor, English Dept., UC Berkeley, Spring, 2000

                Visiting Fellow, English Dept., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Spring 1998

                Visiting Faculty, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, May, 1994

                Visiting Professor, English Dept., Beijing Teachers College, Beijing, China, Fall, 1988

               

Professor of English, SUNY at Buffalo, 1995-2000; Emerita 2000

                Associate Professor of English, SUNY at Buffalo  1982-1995

                Assistant Professor of English, SUNY at Buffalo, 1974-1981

 

Professional Memberships:

                Affiliate Member, American Psychoanalytic Association, 2001-

Member: Modern Language Association, 1974-

                Affiliate: Western New York Psychoanalytic Society 1985-2000

                Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, SUNY-Buffalo (previous to 1992, known as        The Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts)

                Offices held: Co-Director, Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture,         SUNY-Buffalo,   1993-95

                Director, Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts, SUNY-Buffalo,

                1986-88.

Chair, Executive Committee of the Division on Psychological Approaches to Literature, MLA, 1984; 1995.

 

A Selection of Courses Taught:

Undergraduate classes:

Literature and Psychoanalysis

Autobiography

                American Pluralism and Concepts of Identity

                The Holocaust in American Literature

                Gender and Violence

Graduate Seminars:

                 Holocaust --Memory/Trauma/Text

                Object Relations Theory and Literary Representation

                Hysteria and Narrative Structure

                Feminism and Postmodernism

                Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Theories and Criticism

                Gothic Fiction

                Freud

                Virginia Woolf and Julia Kristeva

 

Publications

Books:

 Passions of the Voice:  Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995).

 

Co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer,  In Dora's Case: Freud,Hysteria, Feminism, with an introductory essay, "Why Dora Now?"  New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1985; Second edition, 1990.

 

Co-editor, with Shirley Garner, Madelon Sprengnether,  The(M)Other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation, with an introductory essay by the editors. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1985.

 

Editor, Psychoanalyse und das Unheimliche: Essays aus der amerikanischen Literaturkritik, trans. R.Hauser.  Bonn, W. Germany: Bouvier Press, 1981, with an introductory essay by the editor. In the series, Modern German Studies, under the general editorship of Peter Heller.

 

 Selected Articles in Refereed Journals and Chapters in Books:

“Revisioning Rage: Flannery O’Connor and Me” Massachusetts Review, forthcoming.

 

"Uncanny Sights: the Anticipation of the Abomination" in Trauma at Home: After 9/11, ed. Judith Greenberg .  University of Nebraska Press ,   2002 .

 

“Geographies of Loss.” Shaping Losses.  Ed. Julia Epstein and Lori Lefkowitz. University of Illinois Press,  June, 2001.   Reading at Black Oak Books, Berkeley, CA, July 7, 2001.

 

 “Dark Mirrors: A Feminist Reflection  on Holocaust Narrative and the Maternal Metaphor.” Feminist Consequences.Ed. Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka.  Columbia University Press,   2000.

 

"The Woman with a Knife and the Chicken without a Head: Fantasms of Rage and Emptiness." Feminisms/ Psychoanalyses. Ed. Peter Rudnytsky and Andrew Gordon.  SUNY Press, 1999.

 

"Gender and Patrimony: Mourning the Dead Father"  differences, Spring, 1997.

 

'Memory, History and Critique. European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the 6th International ISSEI Conference at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht,

The Netherlands, August 1996' (eds. Frank Brinkhuis & SaschaTalmor). 

               

"Freud and the Passions of the Voice" in Freud and the Passions. ed. John O'Neil.  Penn State Press, 1996.

 

"The Aesthetic Politics of Rage." Literature, Interpretation, Theory, vol. 3, 1992, 19-31; rpt. in States of Rage, ed. Renee R. Curry and Terry L. Allison. New York: New York University Press, 1996, (126-145).

 

"Gender and Voice in Transitional Phenomena." Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces. Ed. Peter Rudnytsky.  Columbia University Press, 1993.

 

"Object Relations Theory." Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary, ed. Elizabeth Wright. Blackwell's,  Oxford, Cambridge, England, 1992,  284-290.

 

"Freud's Sublimation: Disgust, Desire and the Female Body." American Imago, vol 49. no.4 (Winter,1992), 411-426.

 

"The Bostonians and the Figure of the Speaking Woman" in Psychoanalysis And ...,  edited Richard Feldstein and Henry Sussman. New York: Routledge, 1989, 163-174.

 

"Hysteria, Feminism and the Case of The Bostonians" in Feminism and Psychoanalysis, ed. Richard Feldstein and Judith Roof. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989, 280-297.

 

"Seduction and the Voice of the Text: Heart of Darkness and The Good Soldier, in Seduction and Theory, ed. Dianne  Hunter. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989, 135-153.

 

"The Maternal Legacy: The Grotesque Tradition in Flannery O'Connor's Female Gothic," The Female Gothic, ed. Juliann Fleenor. London; Montreal: Eden Press, 1983, 232-257.

 

"Questioning the Maternal Voice" Genders, 3 (November, 1988), 82-91.

 

 "Psychoanalysis and American Fiction: The Subversion of Q.E.D.," (with Janice Doane) Studies in American Fiction (August, 1981), 137-157.

 

"Gothic Mirrors and Feminine Identity," Centennial Review, (Winter, 1980), 43-63; revised and reprinted in The (M)Other Tongue, ed. Garner, Sprengnether, Kahane. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.

               

"The Nuptials of Metaphor and To the Lighthouse," Literature and Psychology, vol. 30, No. 2 (1980), 72-80.

 

"Comic Vibrations and Self-Construction in Grotesque Literature," Literature and Psychology, vol. 29, No. 3 (1979), 114-120.

 

"The Artificial Niggers," Massachusetts Review, (Spring, 1978), 183-198.

 

"Flannery O'Connor's Rage of Vision," American Literature (March, 1974), 54-67; reprinted in Critical Essays on Flannery O'Connor, ed. Beverly Lyon Clark and Melvin J. Friedman.  Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985. Excerpted in The Bedford Introduction to Literature, ed. Michael Meyer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987; 1993.

 

Selected Reviews and Review Essays: 

Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory and the Perils of Looking Back, Janice Haaken. Rutgers University Press, 1998.  In  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2003,  vol.4, no.2.

 

The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents. Elisabeth Bronfen., 

Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1998. Pp. xi+469. In Modern Philology, (University of Chicago Press), 1999.

 

Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth Century Fictions of Hysteria, Evelyne Ender.Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London, 1995. 307 pp.  In The Henry James Review, Winter, 1998.

 

PMLA Forum, March, 1996:   Multidisciplinary Teaching and its Problems .

               

Reconstructing Desire:The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing.  Jean Wyatt. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1990. 271 pp. 

 Telling Tales: The Hysteric's Seduction in Fiction and Theory. Katherine Cummings.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.  For Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 37, no.4 (Winter, 1991), pp.816-18

 

Recent Lectures and Conference Papers 

“Flannery O’Connor and Me” 20th International Literature and Psychoanalysis Conference, University at Greenwich, England, July 2-7, 2003

 

“Ruthless Gravity: Falling out of Representation” University of Kentucky Foreign Literature Conference, April 26-28, 2003.

 

"The Uncanny and the Real: Watching 9/11" at the 19th Annual International Literature and Psychoanalysis Conference, University of Siena at Arezzo, Italy, June 26- July 1, 2002;  revised for presentation at SUNY-Stonybrook, Symposium on 9/11: Trauma at Home, October,  2002.

 

"9/11: Trauma and Spectacle" University of California Consortium in Psychoanalysis, Lake Arrowhead, May 3-5, 2002.

 

“Maternal Identification and Holocaust Representation”. International Literature and Psychoanalysis Conference, Center Semiotica, Urbino, Italy, July 7-12, 1999. 

Revised version presented at workshop session of the Conference on Women and Power, Emory University, Feb.25-28, 2000, and as University Lecture at Trinity College, Hartford, November, 2000.

 

Autobiography and its Relation to a Professional Trajectory: Psychobiography Workshop of Townsend Center for the Humanites, UC Berkeley, April, 2000.