Library of Social Science Book Exhibit

Robert Bernasconi
Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology

Robert Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at Penn State. He is the author of two books on Heidegger and one on Sartre. He has in addition published extensively in Critical Philosophy of Race as well as on such figures as Locke, Kant, Hegel, Levinas, Derrida, and Fanon. He is the editor of the journal "Critical Philosophy of Race.

Nancy McWilliams
Finding the Other In the Self

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, teaches psychoanalytic theory and therapy at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. A senior analyst with the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, she has a private practice in psychodynamic therapy and supervision in Flemington, New Jersey. Her book Psychoanalytic Diagnosis has become a standard text in many training programs for psychoanalysts, both in the United States and abroad. She has also authored articles and book chapters on personality, psychotherapy, psychodiagnosis, sexuality, feminism, and contemporary psychopathologies.

George Yancy
White Narratives and the Black Body: An Ethics of Un-Suturing and Bodies without Edges

George Yancy is professor of philosophy at Emory University. He received his Ph.D. (with distinction) in philosophy from Duquesne University where he was the first McAnulty Fellow. He received his first M.A. in philosophy from Yale University and his second M.A. in Africana Studies from NYU, where he received the prestigious McCracken Fellowship. He received his BA (cum laude) in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. His work is primarily in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy of the black experience. He has authored many academic articles and book chapters. He has authored, edited, or co-edited over 19 books. He is editor of the Philosophy of Race Book Series at Lexington Books, and is known for his influential interviews and controversial articles on the subject of race at The Stone, New York Times.

Fanny Howe
The Wages: A Plenary Conversation with Fanny Howe
Discussants: Mark Freeman, Richard Kearney, Amy Hollywood & Nancy McWilliams

Fanny Howe has written dozens of books of poetry, essays and fiction. These include from Graywolf Press One Crossed Out, The Lyrics, Gone, Come and See, The Winter Sun, The Needle’s Eye, and Second Childhood which was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 2015. She has won the Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry in 2009 and was a Finalist, in 2015, for The International Man Booker Award for her fiction. She is also Professor Emeritus at the University of California- San Diego.

Ken Corbett
Transit: Playing the Other

Ken Corbett, Ph.D., is Assistanat Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of “Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities” (Yale, 2009), and “A Murder Over A Girl: Gender, Justice, Junior High. ” (Henry Holt, 2016). Dr. Corbett has a private practice in New York City.

Roger Frie
History's Ethical Demand: Remembering and Responsibility in the Wake of the Holocaust

Roger Frie is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Psychoanalytic Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute. He trained in history and philosophy in London and Cambridge and then became a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York. His writings bridge the humanities and psychology and examine memory, social responsibility and the nature of human interaction. He is author and editor of eight books, most recently Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust (Oxford, 2017) and History Flows through Us: Germany, the Holocaust and the Importance of Empathy (Routledge, 2017).