Rate Professor Max Cavitch

Academic Background

Ph.D., Rutgers University; B.A., Yale University.

Research Interests

American and Anglophone literature of the modern period; Psychoanalytic Studies; Animal Studies; Cinema and New Media Studies; Comparative Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Gender and Sexuality Studies; historical poetics.

Appointments

Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania (since 1999); co-editor, Early American Studies book series (University of Pennsylvania Press); member, Advisory and Executive Councils, McNeil Center for Early American Studies; consortium member, Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity; founding faculty, Penn's undergraduate program in Psychoanalytic Studies.

Awards

Fulbright Scholar Award; 2022 Excellence in Journalism Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association for 'Psyche on Campus'.

Publications

• Articles and contributions in various journals; featured work in The Journal of Wild Culture.

Additional Contributions

Collaboration with Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry.