Notes on Contributors

C. Fred Alford is Professor of Government at the University of Maryland, College Park. Author of nine books on moral psychology, his latest is Think No Evil: Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (Cornell UP, ). He recently completed a book manuscript on whistle blowers, and is currently fascinated with, and not a little troubled by, Emmanuel Levinas.

Nancy Blake is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She formerly taught in France, where she was a student of Jacques Lacan and did psychoanalytic training and research on psychosis in the institutional setting. She is the author of Henry James: Ecriture et absence, Ezra Pound et l'imagisme, l'Avant siècle and of studies of fin de siècle poetry, and contemporary fiction. She is currently writing a study of the work of Robert Steiner.

Virginia Blum is Associate Professor of English at University of Kentucky. She is the author of Hide and Seek: The Child between Psychoanalysis and Fiction, and is currently working on a new study entitled “Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery.”

Cynthia Burack is an assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory (New York UP, ), and articles in feminist theory and political psychology.

Mary Caputi is Associate Professor of political theory at California State University, Long Beach. Her areas of interest include feminist thought, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Theory of the Obscene.

Simon Clarke is a lecturer at the University of the West of England, where he teaches sociology and social psychology. His research interests include the impact of psychoanalysis on sociological thinking, psychoanalytic and sociological theory, racism, and the sociology of hate. He is an active member of the Psycho-Social studies group at the Centre for Social a