A Guest Lecture by
Professor FRANCES RESTUCCIA, Boston College
"Kristeva's Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) Drive"
Friday, April 7, 2:00 p.m.
Clemens 412
[Refreshments to Follow]
prior to Professor Restuccia's lecture on April 7, please join us for...
A Screening of David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Thursday, April 6, 3:30 p.m.
Clemens 640
Professor Restuccia has worked extensively in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, film, modernism, literature, philosophy and
psychoanalysis. She is the editor of a series on Contemporary Theory for The Other Press (NYC) and the co-chair of the Psychoanalytic Practices seminar at The Humanities Center at Harvard. Her
publications include Melancholics in Love: Representations of Women's Depression and Domestic Abuse, James Joyce and the Law of the Father, and " 'A Cave of My Own': The Sexual Politics of Indeterminacy." Her latest book, Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.