Full-Time Faculty

Marshall Alcorn
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1981
M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1976
Graduate, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, 2006

My research explores relations between social change and psychological resistance to change. I am interested in practices of rhetoric, teaching and information circulation. I am interested in concepts such as ideology, transference, paranoia, defense, subjectivity, group identity, persuasion, identification, trauma, mourning, and fantasy.

Books:

Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire. Southern Illinois U.P., 2002.

Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity. New York University Press, 1994.

Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure, and Society. Editor, with Mark Bracher, Ron Corthell, and Franciose Massardier-Kenney. New York University Press, 1994.

Other Publications:

“Laplanche,” The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought. Lawrence D. Kritzman, Ed. Columbia University Press, 2006.

“Narrative and Psychoanalysis,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative, 2004.

"Ideological Death and Grief." JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 6 (2001): 172-180.

"Rhetoric, Projection, and the Authority of the Signifier." College English, 49 (1987), 137-157.

Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the Re-formation of the Self: A New Direction for Reader Response Theory," (coauthored with Mark Bracher). PMLA, 100 (1985), 342-354.