Faculty
Tim Dean
Professor of English; Director, Humanities Institute
Office: Clemens 411
Phone number: 645-2575 X1034
E-mail address: tjdean@buffalo.edu
Personal website: buffalo.edu/~tjdean/
Interests:
Queer Theory; Psychoanalysis; Poetry and Poetics; Modernism; LGBT Studies; Literary Theory; Cultural Studies
Courses taught:
- Basic Concepts in Psychoanalysis (grad seminar)
- Queer Theory (grad seminar)
- Poetics of Difficulty (grad seminar)
- Foucault (grad seminar)
- Literature and Gender (undergrad)
- Modern Poetry and Impersonality (undergrad)
- Poetry and Madness (undergrad)
Work in progress:
Four books in various stages of completion:
- “A Future for the Humanities: Critique, Heterogeneity, Invention”
- “Modernism and the Ethics of Impersonality”
- “The Otherness of Art”
- “What Is Psychoanalytic Thinking? Essays on Gender, Sexuality, and the Unconscious”
See personal webpage for more information.
Selected publications:
Books
- Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press)
- Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (coed. with Christopher Lane; University of Chicago Press 2001)
- Beyond Sexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
- Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious (Macmillan 1991)
Articles in Critical Inquiry; Diacritics; October; Raritan; Oxford Literary Review; American Literary History; and elsewhere.
