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Name: Lee Edelman
Title: Chair; Fletcher Professor of English Literature
Departmental Affiliation: English Department
Degrees: Ph.D., Yale University
M. Phil., Yale
M.A., Yale University
B.A., Northwestern University
Expertise: Literary theory--in particular queer theory, post-structuralism, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural studies
Modern poetry
Film and film theory
Major Awards: 1998 Awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award by Tufts University
1994 Tufts Class of 1994 Recognition for Excellence
1993 Chosen by Alumni of Class of 1986 as one of Tufts' Most Influential Teachers
1989 Crompton-Noll Award of the MLA for "Redeeming the Phallus"
1989 Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising
1983 Discovery Prize for Poetry
E-mail: lee.edelman@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: 2004 No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, Duke University Press

1994 Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory, Routledge

1987 Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire, Stanford University Press

2005 “Unknowing Barbara,” Diacritics

2004 “Compassion’s Compulsion,” in Compassion” The Culture and Politics of an Emotion, ed. Lauren Berlant, Routledge

2003 "Sinthom-osexuality: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Queers," in Aesthetic Subjects, ed. David McWhirter

2003 “Queer Thought: The Unendurable,” trans. into French by Robert Harvey, in a special issue of Rue Descartes (France)

2002 “Aesthetic Value and Literary Language: Bishop and de Man,” in “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same”: New Essays on Poetry and Poetics, Renaissance to Contemporary, ed. Jennifer Lewin, University Press of New England

2002 “Post Partum: A Response to John Brenkman,” Narrative

1999 "Hitchcock's Future,"in Hitchcock: Centenary Essays, ed. Richard Allen and Sam Gonzales, British Film Institute Press

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