PhD in Comparative Literature (French, German, English), UC Irvine.  Her research interests include psychoanalytic theory; 20^th century French literature; contemporary philosophy and critical thought (especially theories of the subject); and biblical hermeneutics and theology.    She has published essays on Jacques Lacan, Pierre Klossowski, Alain Badiou, Saint Paul, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the Hebrew Bible.  She recently completed a book manuscript entitled The Hostess, My Neighbor:  Hospitality and the Expropriation of Identity, and is co-editing a volume of essays by Pierre Klossowski for University of Minnesota Press.  Her current project is a book on ethics and aesthetics in the work of Jacques Lacan.

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