Degrees: Ph.D. Harvard University; M.A. Harvard University; B.A. Mount Holyoke College
Member, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Expertise: Chinese Art History and Archaeology; Psychoanalytic Theories and Visual Culture

Major Awards: Fulbright Research Award, 2005-2006; Felix and Helene Deutsch Prize, 2005; CORST Prize for Writing on Psychoanalysis in Culture, 2002; Fulbright/Sigmund Freud Society Scholar of Psychoanalysis, 2001-2002; Julius Silberger Scholar, 1996-1997.

Selected Scholarship and Publications
"Moses in Moravia," American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences 67/2 (Summer 2010), pp. 157-182.

"The Magic of the Manifest: Freud's Egyptian Dream Book," American Imago 66/2 (Summer 2009), pp. 211-230.

"Eine Projektion ein plastisches Ding? Lacan und das Verschwinden der Plastik/Skulptur/Statue im Kanon der Künste" in Verschränkungen von Symbolischem und Realem: Zur Aktualität von Lacans Denken in der Kulturwissenschaften, eds. Jochen Bonz et al. (Berlin: Kadmos, 2007), pp. 214-223. (co-authored with Elisabeth von Samsonow)

"Mapping the Unconscious: Freud's Topographic Constructions," Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation 23/1-2 (March-June 2007), pp. 105-117.

"Lingua Flora: Deciphering the "Dream of the Botanical Monograph," American Imago 62/2 (Summer 2005), pp. 157-177.

"Negotiations of Surface: Archaeology in the Early Strata of Psychoanalysis," Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 52/3 (Summer 2004), pp. 653-671.

"On the Train(ing)," Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 6/3 (Fall, 2001), pp. 313-315.

"Critical Distance: Replacing the Practice of Chinese Art History," Journal of East Asian Archaeology 2 (1/2) (January 2000), pp. 329-342.

Reflection and Reception: The Origins of the Mirror in Bronze Age China. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities; 1990. (vol. 62 in their Bulletin series); recipient of a Swedish Research Council Award

"On Dangerous Ground: Locating the Freudian Unconscious" (manuscript in preparation)

Courses

FAHS-0021-B
Bronze Age of China

FAHS-0198
Critical Discourses: Geneologies and Strategies

FAHS-0022
Acts of Emptying: Topics in the Visual Culture of Premodern Japan

FAHS-0196-B
Recognitions: Re-Visioning the Limits of Knowledge

FAHS-0023-A
Art and Culture of India