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SUNY promotes Copjec
Joan Copjec, UB Distinguished Professor in the departments of English and Comparative Literature, has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.
The distinguished professorship recognizes and honors individuals who have achieved national or international prominence in their fields.
Copjec's primary fields of research are psychoanalysis, film and film theory, feminism, and art and architecture. She serves as director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, which brings together faculty and graduate students interested in investigating the clinical and nonclinical implications of Freudian theory.
She is the author of two books: "Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists" (MIT Press, 1994) and "Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation" (MIT, 2002). She also has edited numerous books, as well as the influential journal October.
Copjec has taught at various schools of architecture, among them the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City, Sci-Arc in Los Angeles and the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at CUNY.
She earned a master's degree in contemporary literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; a diploma in film from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London; and a doctorate in cinema studies from New York University.
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