Notes on Contributors

Isabelle Alfandary is Professor of American Literature at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris-3), France, where she teaches American literature, poetry, American philosophy, and critical theory. As Directrice de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie (CipH), her seminars deal with the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalysis. Her book on Derrida and Lacan and the question of writing is forthcoming.

Donna Bassin is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, and fine art photographer. Her clinical work with rescue workers at Ground Zero and families following 9/11 led her to consult with communities of veterans regarding their understanding of mourning the traumatic losses of war. As a participant-observer and documentarian to these communities she has come to understand the importance of the communalization of trauma.

Marcus Coelen teaches literature and literary theory. Faculty, Columbia University, Psychoanalytic Study Program, his academic research focuses on modern French thought and the intersection of literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is currently preparing, together with Jamieson Webster, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan. He is in private practice in New York and Berlin.

Monique David-Ménard is currently a Professor at the Graduate School “Research in Psychoanalysis” at the University Paris-Diderot (Paris 7) and a psychoanalyst in Paris. She is an associate member of the Society of Freudian Psychoanalysis (SPF). A member of the International Network of Women Philosophers of UNESCO, she was also philosophy teacher for the preparatory classes at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. She is a co-founder of the SIPP - ISPP.

Tim Dean is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The author or editor of six books on psychoanalysis and sexuality, he is currently completing two new books: Sex, Literature, and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge University Press) and What Is Psychoanalytic Thinking? (University o