Thinking Through Affect and Psychoanalysis: Introducing Papers from the Conference “Worldings, Tensions, Futures”

Katie Gentile, Ph.D., is Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). She is the author of Creating bodies: Eating disorders as self-destructive survival and the 2017 Gradiva Award -inning The business of being made: The temporalities of reproductive technologies in psychoanalysis and cultures, both from Routledge. She is the editor of the Routledge book series Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Culture and a co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is on the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Critical Social Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is in private practice in New York City.
Katie Gentile, John Jay College, 524 W. 59th Street NY, NY 10019.

Lisa Baraitser, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychosocial Theory, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Maternal Encounters: The ethics of interruption (Routledge, 2009) and Enduring Time (Bloomsbury, 2017). She is co-editor of the journal Studies in the Maternal, and the Routledge book series, Genders & Sexualities in Minds and Culture. She writes widely on feminist theory, motherhood, ethics, affect, and temporality, and is a psychotherapist in independent practice, and a Candidate at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.