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Tufts University
Department of English
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Room 313, East Hall
Medford, MA 02155
Office: 617.627.2046
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Lee Edelman
Fletcher Professor of English Literature
Biography
Lee Edelman began his academic career as a
scholar of twentieth-century American
poetry. He has since become a central figure
in the development, dissemination, and
rethinking of queer theory. His current work
explores the intersections of sexuality,
rhetorical theory, cultural politics, and
film. He holds an appointment as the
Fletcher Professor of English Literature.
Research Interests
- Literary Theory (especially Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Post-structuralism)
- Film Studies
Courses Taught
- Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology
- Postmodernism and Film
- Literary Theory
- How Films Think
- Psychoanalysis
and Cinema
- Film Noir and the American
Tradition
- The Politics of Reading
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Resistances: Theory and the Negative
-
Queering Theory
- Queerness and
Afro-pessimism: De/Ontologies of Reading
Publication Highlights
Books:
- Sex, or the Unbearable (co-authored with Lauren
Berlant) (Duke University Press, 2014)
- L'impossible homosexuel: Huit essais de théorie
queer (Epel, 2013)
- No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke University Press, 2004)
- Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (Routledge, 1993)
- Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire (Stanford, 1987)
Recent Essays:
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"'Queerness,' Afro-Pessimism, and the Return of the Aesthetic," in The
Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies, REAL – Yearbook of Research in
English and American Literature
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"Two Much: Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train," co-written with Joseph
Litvak, GLQ
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"Psychoanalysis and Urgency: An Interview," The Lacanian Review
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"De Man's Negativity," Symplokē
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"Learning Nothing: Bad Education," differences
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"Queer Tragedy," co-written with Madhavi Menon, in The Oxford Handbook of
Shakespearean Tragedy
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"The Pathology of the Future; or, The Endless Triumphs of Life," in
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism
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"Brief Encounter: de Man and Wordsworth, or the Irony of 'The
Rhetoric of Temporality,'" Romantic Circles Praxis Series
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"Light Hair: The Aesthetics of The Lodger," Cinephile
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"Occupy Wall Street: Bartleby and the (In)Humanities," History of
the Present
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"White Skin, Dark Meat: Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of Disgust,"
Identities: A Journal of Politics, Gender and Culture
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"Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint," Shakespeare
Quarterly
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"Antagonism, Negativity, and the Subject of Queer Theory," PMLA
- "Unknowing Barbara," Diacritics
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