English Department Faculty

Frances Restuccia

Professor

Department

English

Publications

Books

  • James Joyce and the Law of the Father, Yale UP, 1989.
  • Melancholics in Love: Representations of Women's Depression and Domestic Abuse, Rowan and Littlefield, 聽February 2000.
  • Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory, Stanford UP, 2006.
  • The Blue Box, Continuum, 2012.

Articles and Essays in Collections

  • "'A Cave of My Own': 聽The Sexual Politics of Indeterminacy," Raritan, vol. 9, no. 2 (fall 1989), pp. 110-128.
  • 鈥淗omo Homini Lupus: 聽Milan Kundera's The Joke," 聽Contemporary Literature, vol. 31, no. 3 (fall 1990), pp. 281-299. 聽(Reprinted in Garland Press 1992 edition of critical essays on Kundera.)
  • "'A Black Morning': 聽Kristevan Melancholia in Jane Austen's Emma," 聽American Imago, vol. 51, no. 4 聽(winter 1994), pp. 447-469.
  • "Literary Representations of Battered Women: Spectacular Domestic Punishment," Genders, vol. 23 (spring 1996), pp. 42-71. (Reprinted in Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Performance, ed. Foster, Siegel, and Berry, NYU Press, 1996.)
  • "Tales of Beauty: 聽 Aestheticizing Female Melancholia," 聽American Imago, vol. 53, no. 4 (winter 1996), pp. 353-83.
  • "Conjurings: 聽Mourning and Abjection in Story of O and Return to the Ch芒teau,鈥 Gender and Psychoanalysis, 聽vol. 3, no. 2 (April 1998), pp. 123-153. 聽(This publication includes a response to a respondent: 聽pp. 171-174.)
  • "Ethical Erogenous Zones," Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, vol. 3, no. 2 (fall 1998), pp. 109-21.
  • Foreword to Serge Andr茅's What Does A Woman Want? - translated into English, New York: Other Press, July 1999, pp. xvii-xxvi.
  • 鈥淭he Subject of Homosexuality: 聽Butler鈥檚 Elision鈥 (long article version), Clinical Studies: 聽International Journal of Psychoanalysis, vol. 5, no. 1, 1999, pp. 19-38.
  • (This essay was also published in Lacan in America, ed. Jean-Michel Rabat茅 - Philadelphia Lacan Conference proceedings, Other Press, pp. 349-60.)
  • "Molly in Furs: 聽Deleuzean/Masochian Masochism in the Writing of James Joyce" reprinted in Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments, Routledge, spring, 2000.
  • "Impossible Love in Breaking the Waves: 聽Mystifying Hysteria," literature and psychology, vol. 47, numbers 1 & 2, 2001. This essay has been reprinted in Lacan and Contemporary Film, ed. Todd McGowan and Sheila Kunkle, Other Press, 2004.
  • 鈥淨ueer Love,鈥 in Between the Psyche and the Social: 聽Psychoanalytic Social Theory,聽
  • Ed. Kelly Oliver Steve Edwin. Lanham, Maryland: 聽Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2002, pp. 83-95.
  • 鈥淭aming the Real: 聽Zizek鈥檚 Missed Encounter with Kieslowski鈥檚 Insight.鈥 聽Lacanian Ink (internet pub.), spring 2002.
  • 鈥淕raham Greene鈥檚 Lacanian Encore: The End of the Affair.鈥 Religion and the Arts, vol. 7-4, 2003, pp. 369-87.
  • 鈥淭he Use of Perversion: 聽Secretary or The Piano Teacher?鈥 聽Lacanian Ink (internet pub.), spring 2004.
  • "Black and Blue: 聽Kieslowski's Melancholia," in Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva鈥檚 Polis, ed. Tina Chanter and Ewa Ziarek, SUNY Press, 2005,
  • pp. 193-207.
  • 鈥淪ebald鈥檚 Punctum: 聽Awakening to Holocaust Trauma in Austerlitz鈥 in European Journal of English Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, Dec. 2005, pp. 301-22 聽Routledge. Special issue, titled Intimate Transfers, edited by Maria Margaroni.
  • 鈥淎 Radical Ethical Imperative: 聽Sublimation Love.鈥 聽Journal of Lacanian Studies, vol. 4,
  • 聽no. 1, summer 2006, pp. 159-77. 聽(Review-article on Joan Copjec鈥檚 Imagine There鈥檚
  • No Woman.)
  • 鈥淜risteva鈥檚 Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: 聽Encountering the (Mulholland) Drive鈥 in Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Kristeva, ed. Kelly Oliver, SUNY Press, 2009.
  • 鈥淭he Thought Specular: 聽Kieslowski鈥檚 White and Streitfeld鈥檚 Female Perversions,鈥 Film/Philosophy, spring 2010.
  • 鈥淭he Virtue of Blushing: 聽Assimilating Anxiety into Shame in Haneke鈥檚 Cach茅,鈥 Symplok膿, vol. 18, nos. 1-2, 2010.
  • 鈥淲hy Can鈥檛 Dulcinea Love Us?鈥 Philosophy Today, special issue titled 鈥淰iolence and the Sacred,鈥 Vol. 56:2, summer 2012.
  • 鈥淪ebastian鈥檚 Skull: 聽Establishing the 鈥楽ociety of the Icon,鈥欌 a chapter in Kristeva鈥檚 Fiction, Ed. Benigno Trigo, SUNY Press, September 2013.
  • 鈥淎 Messianic Aesthetic: Lily Briscoe鈥檚 Vision,鈥 Genre, Vol. 49, spring 2016.
  • 鈥淭he Melancholic and Messianic Allure of Venice or How Best to Access the Inaccessible,鈥 Philosophy Today, Vol. 60, spring 2016.
  • 鈥溾橝 Black Passion鈥: Voiding Melancholic Obsession in Pamuk鈥檚 The Museum of Innocence,鈥 American Imago, Vol. 73, spring 2016.