ARANYE FRADENBURG

Professor Emeritus

lfraden@english.ucsb.edu

Aranye Fradenburg is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Medieval Studies at UCSB, where she founded the English Department’s specialization in “Literature and the Mind.” She also holds a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, and practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and taught at Dartmouth College before moving to UCSB. Her particular interests are psychoanalytic theory and practice, interdisciplinary study of the mind and the environment, biopoetics, and English and Scottish medieval literature. She has edited two essay collections, Women and Sovereignty(Edinburgh, 1994) and, with Carla Freccero, Premodern Sexualities (Routledge, 1996). She is the author of City, Marriage Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland (U. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1991); Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer (U. of Minnesota Press, 2002); Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts (punctum books: Brooklyn, NY, 2013) and many articles on a variety of topics from medieval literature to cognitive literary studies and psychoanalytic technique. Her work is the topic of Still Thriving, edited by Eileen A. Joy (punctum books: Brooklyn, NY, 2013). She is on the editorial board of several journals and a reviewer for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

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Office: South Hall 2523

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FAX: (805) 893-4622

Mailing Address: English Department, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170