Department of English

Juan Gallardo (B.A. Wesleyan University) is a literary studies scholar and creative writer in the English Department at Brown University. His dissertation, Psychoanalytic Fictions: Simulating Blackness, Simulating the Unconscious, brings Freudian and Lacananian psychoanalytic theory to bear on classic texts of African American literature and considers the extent to which representations of black interiority, at times, anticipate classic psychoanalytic theory and how, at others, the latter can enhance literary interpretations of the former. His research interests include Black Feminism, Black Critical Theory, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Narrative Theory, and Paraliterature. He has taught surveys on African American Literature, Science Fiction, Shakespeare, American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, and continental philosophy. He is the Senior Writing Associate at the Sheridan Writing Center for Teaching and Learning. His writing is under review at Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, and he has contributed to the McFarland anthologies Science Fiction at the End of History and Psychoanalyzing the Post Apocalypse. He is at work on a novel, The Second Coming, as well as two collections of short stories, Se Fue a La Chingada and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.