Faculty

Joan Copjec

UB Distinguished Professor
Office: 409 Clemens
Phone number: (716) 645.2562
Email address: jkcopjec@buffalo.edu

 

Interests:

psychoanalysis; film theory; feminism; philosophy; art & architectural theory

Courses taught:

  • Lacan; Women and Ontology; Deleuze and Cinema; Corbin and Islamic Philosophy; Cities and Cinema; Ethics; Affectivity and Political Radicalism; Rhetoric: Psychoanalysis and Politics; Identification and the Social Bond; Film Noir; Hitchcock; Abbas Kiarostami; Radical Evil; Melodrama; Iranian Cinema; Horrors! (The German Uncanny and the American Gothic); You’re No Don Juan: Female Desire and Disappointment; The History of People; the Destitution of the One (from Parmenides to Bersani); Cinema and Psychoanalysis; Aesthetics and Sublimation; The Subject (in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis)

Work in progress:

  • "Kiarostami's Imaginal World: Shame, Hejab, Cinema"

Selected publications:

  • El sexo y la euthanasia de la razon: ensayos sobre el amor y la diferencia (Paidos, 2006); in Spanish only
  • Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (MIT 2002); translations in Japanese, Spanish; forthcoming in Korean, Turkish
  • Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (MIT, 1994); translations in Japanese, German; forthcoming in Korean
  • Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity, coed. with Michael Sorkin (Verso, 1999)
  • Radical Evil, ed. (Verso, 1996)
  • Supposing the Subject, ed. (Verso1996)
  • Shades of Noir: A Reader, ed. (Verso, 1993)
  • Jacques Lacan: Television/ A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, ed. (Norton, 1990)
  • October: The First Decade, 1976-1986, ed. With Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson (MIT, 1987)