Islands of Encounter: A Reflection on the Place of Psychoanalysis

Michelle Stephens, Ph.D., is currently the Dean of the Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and a graduate of the Licensure Qualifying Program at The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology. Originally from Jamaica, West Indies, she graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. in American Studies. She is the author of Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke University Press, 2014); Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914 to 1962 (Duke University Press, 2005); and co-editor of two recent collections, Archipelagic American Studies (Duke University Press, 2017) and Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago (Fresco Books and Duke University Press, 2017).
CONTACT Michelle A. Stephens, Ph.D. ; 42 Central Avenue, East Brunswick, NJ08816.