Professor James Penney
BA, MA (Alberta), PhD (Duke)
jamespenney@trentu.ca
Traill College, Scott House 205
705-748-1011 ext. 6075
James Penney is a cultural theorist whose work is situated at the various intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy. He is the author of three books: The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire (2006), The Structures of Love: Art and Politics Beyond the Transference (2012), and After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics (2014). His new book Genet, Lacan and the Ontology of Incompletion is scheduled for publication shortly.
His teaching fields are broad and various, and reflect his training in cultural theory, comparative literature and cinema, and French and Francophone literatures. For Cultural Studies he teaches courses in world literature and cinema, gender and queer theory, and psychoanalytic cultural studies; and for the French and Francophone Studies Department he teaches courses delivered in French in 20th century French literature, literary criticism and Francophone literatures (especially the ‘Francophone’ Caribbean).
