FRANCES RESTUCCIA - 4/7

The Group for the Study of the History of Ideas in conjunction with
Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature, Ewa Plonowska
Ziarek and Melodia E. Jones Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures, Gérard C. Bucher Present:

A Guest Lecture by Professor FRANCES RESTUCCIA of 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.