John Farrell, Ph.D.
Department
Areas of Expertise
Research Interests
Modern Literature and Culture,Criticism and Critical Theory,Literature and Philosophy,Literature and Science,Psychoanalysis
Education
A.B., Brown University; M.A., 1979
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988
Awards and Affiliations
NEH Fellowship, 2003-04
Research and Publications
The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination (Routledge, 2023)
The Varieties of Authorial Intention: Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
“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. (Cornell, 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.
Freud’s Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion (NYU, 1996).
“The Romance of the 60’s: Self, Community, and the Ethical in The Crying of Lot 49.” Pynchon Notes 30-31 (Spring-Fall 1992): 139-156.