:: Professor of English and Comparative Literature Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture

Joan Copjec has an M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin; a diploma in film from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London; and a Ph.D. in cinema studies from New York University. She is the author of Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (MIT Press, 1994), and Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (MIT, 2002). A former editor of the influential journal, October, she has also edited numerous books, including: October: The First Decade (MIT, 1987; with A. Michelson, R. Krauss, and D. Crimp); Jacques Lacan: Television (Norton, 1990), Shades of Noir (Verso, 1993); Supposing the Subject (Verso, 1994); Radical Evil (Verso, 1995) and Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity (Verso, 1999, with Michael Sorkin). Her primary fields of research are psychoanalysis, film and film theory, feminism, and art and architecture. She has taught intermittently at various schools of architecture: the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (NYC); Sci-Arc (LA); and the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at the City College (NYC).