A Boston College English Professor, Frances Restuccia teaches contemporary theory, modernism, and the world novel. Her published books are James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale UP 1989); Melancholics in Love (Rowman & Littlefield 2000); Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford UP 2006); and The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film (Continuum 2012). She co-chairs "Psychoanalytic Practices" at Harvard. Recent essays have appeared in Philosophy Today, Genre, Comparative Literature, and American Imago.

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A Boston College English Professor, Frances Restuccia teaches contemporary theory, modernism, and the world novel. Her published books are James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale UP 1989); Melancholics in Love (Rowman & Littlefield 2000); Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford UP 2006); and The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film (Continuum 2012). She co-chairs "Psychoanalytic Practices" at Harvard. Recent essays have appeared in Philosophy Today, Genre, Comparative Literature, and American Imago.

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A Boston College English Professor, Frances Restuccia teaches contemporary theory, modernism, and the world novel. Her published books are James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale UP 1989); Melancholics in Love (Rowman & Littlefield 2000); Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford UP 2006); and The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film (Continuum 2012). She co-chairs "Psychoanalytic Practices" at Harvard. Recent essays have appeared in Philosophy Today, Genre, Comparative Literature, and American Imago.

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