Please join Professors Manya Steinkoler and Geoff Klock of the BMCC English Department for the Jane Young* Film Series, Spring Semester 2025. We are delighted to host highly distinguished guests to introduce this semester’s films.
All students, staff and faculty are welcome.
The films and discussions will be held on Zoom: https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/83710120636?pwd=1ivDre1aY2s7ntHsXTdZDmvTVxlbAr.1
Sunday, March 16 at 7 p.m.
The Crying Game, dir. Neil Jordan, 1992.
Guest Speaker: Patricia Gherovici, psychoanalyst and author.
Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Winner of the Gradiva® Award and the Boyer Prize; Other Press: 2003.) Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010) and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge: 2017). She published with Chris Christian Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Winner of the Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Collection and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize; Routledge: 2019.) She edited with Manya Steinkoler, Professor of English at BMCC, Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t (Routledge: 2015), Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016), and most recently, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Winner of the Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Collection; Routledge: 2023), and also with Prof. Steinkoler, the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Gender (Routledge, forthcoming in 2025.)
Sunday, March 30 at 7 p.m.
Sorry to Bother You, dir. Boots Riley, 2018.
Sunday, April 2 at 7 p.m.
Dogtooth, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009.
Guest Speaker: Jean Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, inaugural holder of the Vartan Gregorian professorship at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has authored and edited 48 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound and Joyce. Recent books include Lacan Literario; 1913: The cradle of modernism; The Ethic of the Lie and Etant donnés: 1) l’art, 2) le crime. In 2013, he edited A Handbook of Modernism Studies and a new French translation of Joyce’s Exiles. In 2014 he published Crimes of the Future: Theory and its global reproduction, Bloomsbury Publishing, and Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis, Cambridge University Press. Editor of 1922: Culture, Politics and Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2015, The Pathos of Distance (2016), Think, Pig! Beckett at the limit of the human (2016), Les Guerres de Derrida (2016). More recent titles include Rust (2018), Kafka L.O.L. (2018), After Derrida (2018), Rire au Soleil (2019), Understanding Derrida / Understanding Modernism (2019), Knots: Post-Lacanian Readings of literature and film (2020), Beckett and Sade (2020), Rires Prodigues (2021), Knots, Post-Lacanian readings of film, literature and culture, New York, Routledge, 2020, Beckett and Sade, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020. Rires Prodigues: Rire et jouissance chez Marx, Freud et Kafka, Paris, Stilus, 2021., With Angeliki Spiropoulou, Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics, Bloomsbury, 2022 and James Joyce, Hérétique et Prodigue, Paris, Stilus, 2022.
Sunday, May 4 at 7 p.m.
Suspiria, dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2018.
* This film series was named in honor of former BMCC English Professor Jane Young, who taught composition, literature, and film for 43 years.
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