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Rothenberg, Molly Anne, Ph.D.
Department of English
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
Phone: 504-862-8166
mollyr@tulane.edu

Molly Anne Rothenberg, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Tulane University. She is Co-Director of Tulane's Literature Program, and she has been the Director of Comparative Literature at Beloit College as well as an instructor at the University of California at Irvine, where she received her doctorate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory in 1985. She received a CORST Waiver for Training at the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute and graduated in 2001.

Her publications include: Perversion and the Social Relation (co-edited, Duke University Press, forthcoming 2002); Rethinking Blake's Textuality (1993); "The Newer Angels' and the Living Dead: The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire" (Camera Obscura, 1998); "Performative Chic: The Fantasy of a Performative Politics" (co-authored, College Literature 1997); "Fashionable Theory and the Fashion-able Women: Returning Fuss's Homospectatorial Look" (co-authored, Critical Inquiry 1996).

Dr. Rothenberg was awarded the APsaA CORST Fellowship (1997-2000) for research on ethics and psychoanalysis. She was awarded Tulane Honors Professor of the Year in 1996, and she serves on both the Committee on Research and Special Training and the Committee on Community Clinics for the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her areas of research include psychoanalytic literary criticism, psychoanalytic approaches to ethical and political theory, psychoanalysis and queer theory, and nineteenth-century literature.

Her clinical practice is in adult psychoanalysis.

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