C
harles
Shepherdson
Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Romantic and Modern Lyric Poetry, Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, 19th-Century Intellectual History
Humanities 318
442-4066
shepherd@albany.edu
Charles Shepherdson works in contemporary literary and cultural theory, with an emphasis on psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and intellectual history. He has additional interests, and teaches in the areas of British Romantic Poetry and the ancient world (tragedy and philosophy).
He is the author of Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis (Routledge), The Epoch of the Body (Stanford, forthcoming), and The Ethics of Female Love, a collection of five essays translated into Serbo-Croatian for a special issue of the journal Zenske Studije (Women's Studies). His work has also been translated into Korean. He is also a Member of the Board of SUNY Press, where he is editor of a book series in psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Professor Shepherdson has had grant support from the Henry A. Luce Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Ethel Mae Wilson Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has held post-doctoral fellowships from the Claremont Graduate School, the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University, and the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Recent awards include the following: in 1998, he received the Jens Jacobsen Award for his work on race, genetics, and psychoanalysis from the International Society for Universalism (a division of the Polish Academy of Sciences); in 2003, he was William P. Huffington Scholar-in-Residence at Miami University of Ohio; in 2004, he held the Aristotelian Chair in the Liberal Arts at Saint Thomas Aquinas College in New York; also in 2004, he was given a Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Achievement from Grinnell College.
Professor Shepherdson's recent work has also addressed the relations between psychoanalysis and medicine. He has been appointed as the only academic (non-clinical) member of the American Psychoanalytic Association's "University Forum," a new initiative to develop relations between academic and clinical discourse on psychoanalysis, and he was Chair of their first program at the Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2004. In the past three years, he has been an invited to lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine, at Columbia Medical School, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and three times at Cornell University Medical School, in the Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill College of Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is currently Chair of the MLA's Division for Psychological Approaches to Literature, and a Member of the MLA's Delegate Assembly.
Selection of Reviews & ArticlesReview of Vital Signs:
http://www.psychomedia.it/jep/number8-9/shepherd.htm
Text on Foucault from Postmodern Culture
("History and the Real"):
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.195/shepherd.195
--or--
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v005/5.2shepherdson.html
Text on Lacan from Postmodern Culture (The
Intimate Alterity of the Real"):
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.596/shepherdson.596
Text on Lacan ("The Gift of Love and the Debt
of Desire"):
http://iupjournals.org/differences/diftoc10.html
Text on Sophocles and Lacan ("Of Love and
Beauty in Lacan's Antigone"):
http://wings.buffalo.edu/student-life/graduate/gsa/lacan/aesthetics.html
Ph.D. English Literature, Vanderbilt
University, April 1986.
Dissertation: Excess and Insufficiency: History
and Subjectivity in the British Romantic Lyric
MA. Vanderbilt University, 1981.
BA. Grinnell College, 1979.
Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Achievement, Grinnell College, June 2004.
Aristotelian Chair in the Liberal Arts, Saint Thomas Aquinas College, NY, Spring 2004.
William P. Huffman Scholar-in-Residence, Miami University of Ohio, Fall 2003.
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Saint
Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY, Spring
2003.
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