John C. Farrell, Ph.D.

Areas of Expertise

American Literature, English Literature/English Novel, Freud, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Modern Literature, Nineteenth Century English and Continental Novel, Novel, Philosophy and Literature, Post Enlightenment Literary Culture, Post Modernism

Selected Research and Publications

• “Auden's Call-to-Arms: ‘Spain’ and Psychoanalysis,” Cambridge Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 3 (Fall 2009), 225-42.
• “The Birth of the Psychoanalytic Hero: Freud’s Platonic Leonardo,” Philosophy and Literature vol. 31, no. 2 (October, 2007), 233-54.
• Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
• “Freud and Literature,” in The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy and Culture, ed. Edward Erwin. New York: Routledge, 2001.
• “Suspicion Methodized,” in Fredrick Crews, ed., Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend. New York: Viking/Penguin, 1998.

Selected Awards and Affiliations

• NEH Fellowship, 2003-04