EDUCATION

B.A., Occidental College
M.A., Occidental College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in contemporary literary and cultural theory; the Modern European novel, Modernism, and Contemporary International novels; and Film and Film Theory.

COURSES

 EN133.01- Narrative / Interpretation

 EN606 - Seminar: Resisting the Society of Spectacle

EN752.01 - Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (forthcoming, Stanford UP).
• Melancholics in Love: Representations of Women's Depression and Domestic Abuse (2000).
• "Queer Love," in Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory (2002).
• “Taming the Real: Zizek’s Missed Encounter with Kieslowski’s Insight.” Lacanian Ink (internet publication), spring, 2002.
• “Impossible Love in Breaking the Waves: Mystifying Hysteria,” literature and psychology, volume 47, numbers 1 & 2 (2001).
• “Ethical Erogenous Zones,” Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, volume 1, number 2 (fall, 1998).
• “Homo Homini Lupus: Milan Kundera’s The Joke,” Contemporary Literature, volume 31, number 3 (fall 1990).
• “’A Cave of My Own’: The Sexual Politics of Indeterminacy,” Raritan, volume 9, number 2 (fall 1989).
• James Joyce and the Law of the Father (1989).

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Prof. Restuccia is the editor of a series on Contemporary Theory for The Other Press (NYC). She is also the co-chair of the Psychoanalytic Practices seminar at The Humanities Center at Harvard.