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  • Emma Lieber

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    liebere@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Emma Lieber

    Profile

    Emma Lieber is a literary scholar and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. Her work focuses on psychoanalytic theory (Freud and Lacan); psychoanalysis and literature; novel theory and literary realism (particularly the nineteenth-century Russian and Victorian novel); reality television; queer theory and gender studies; and autotheory and other genres of self-writing.

    Degrees Held

    Ph.D. Columbia University, 2011
    B.A. Yale University, 2002

     

    Recent Publications

    The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury 2020)

    The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), co-edited with Anna Fishzon.

    "Femininity and the Structural Self: Mari Ruti, Autotheory, and Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, November 2025

    "Bitextuality, or, Two Contemporary Writings on Psychoanalysis and Sex," European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Fall 2025

    "The Politics of the Navel: Psychoanalysis and Affiliation," American Imago, Fall 2023

    "Psychoanalysis and Culture, Then and Now," European Journal of Psychoanalysis, January 2024

    "Impossible Professions: Psychoanalysis, Pedagogy, Autotheory," in Autotheories ed. Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Coopann (MIT UP, 2025)

    "Hystericizing the Novel: Crime and Punishment and Psychoanalysis," in MLA Approaches to Teaching Crime and Punishment ed. Alexander Burry and Michael Katz (MLA 2022)

    "The Novel Without Oedipus," in The Effects of Plausibility: Society, Meaning and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Russian Realism ed. Ilya Kliger, Kirill Ospovat and Aleksei Vdovin (NLO 2020)

    "Heroes and Housewives," The Point Magazine and LitHub (Winter 2017)

    Research Interests

    Psychoanalysis and literature, queer theory, gender/sexuality, authotheory/self-writing, Russian literature, the novel/novel theory, realism, reality television

    Awards And Honors

    ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, Rutgers University (2013-2015)

    Whiting Foundation Fellowship (2010-2011)

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