Frances Restuccia
Professor
Biography
Professor of English at Boston College, Frances L. Restuccia teaches contemporary theory, modernism, and novels of the non-Western world. She is the author of James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale UP); Melancholics in Love: Representing Women’s Depression and Domestic Abuse (Rowman & Littlefield); Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford UP); The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film (Continuum), and Agamben’s Political Ontology of Nudity in Literature and Art (Routledge). She has published essays on authors such as Austen, Wharton, Woolf, Forster, Greene, Kundera, Sebald, Pamuk, Cha, Antoon, Gide, and Saint Augustine. She served for five years on the MLA Executive Division Committee on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature and has co-chaired the Psychoanalytic Practices seminar at the Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center for decades. She has published an article on the psychoanalytic underpinnings of Afropessimism in Problemi and has an article forthcoming in Cultural Critique on the intersection of psychoanalysis and Christianity in Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh.