Education

  • Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in English and American Literature in 1989

Books

  • After Oedipus book cover
    After Oedipus
    Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
    Cornell University Press, 1993
  • The Neighbor book cover
    The Neighbor
    Three Inquiries in Political Theology
    University of Chicago Press, 2005

Articles

On Freud, Lacan, Levinas, Henry James, Jewish Studies, and the Bible.

Other Publications

Edits

  • Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonialism on Religion with Julia Reinhard Lupton.

Recent work

  • Currently he is writing a book on the ethics of the neighbor in religion (Torah, Talmud, and Patristic writings), philosophy (Kant, Kierkegaard, Adorno, Rosenzweig, and Levinas), and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan) for Princeton University Press.