Emma Lieber
Part-time Assistant Professor
Email
liebere@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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Emma Lieber is a literary scholar and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. Her work focuses on psychoanalytic theory (Freud and Lacan); psychoanalysis and literature; novel theory and literary realism (particularly the nineteenth-century Russian and Victorian novel); reality television; queer theory and gender studies; and autotheory and other genres of self-writing.
Degrees Held
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2011
B.A. Yale University, 2002
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Recent Publications
The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury 2020)
The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass听(Palgrave Macmillan 2022), co-edited with Anna Fishzon.
"What Did Janet Malcolm Want?"听Critical Quarterly,听Winter 2026
"Femininity and the Structural Self: Mari Ruti, Autotheory, and Psychoanalysis,"听Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society,听November 2025
"Bitextuality, or, Two Contemporary Writings on Psychoanalysis and Sex,"听European Journal of Psychoanalysis,听Fall 2025
"The Politics of the Navel: Psychoanalysis and Affiliation," American Imago,听Fall 2023
"Psychoanalysis and Culture, Then and Now,"听European Journal of Psychoanalysis, January 2024
"Impossible Professions: Psychoanalysis, Pedagogy, Autotheory," in听Autotheories ed. Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Coopann (MIT UP, 2025)
"Hystericizing the Novel: Crime and Punishment and Psychoanalysis," in听MLA Approaches to Teaching Crime and Punishment ed. Alexander Burry and Michael Katz (MLA 2022)
"The Novel Without Oedipus," in听The Effects of Plausibility: Society, Meaning and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Russian Realism ed. Ilya Kliger, Kirill Ospovat and Aleksei Vdovin (NLO 2020)
"Heroes and Housewives," The Point Magazine听and听LitHub (Winter 2017)
Research Interests
Psychoanalysis and literature, queer theory, gender/sexuality, authotheory/self-writing, Russian literature, the novel/novel theory, realism, reality television
Awards And Honors
ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, Rutgers University (2013-2015)
Whiting Foundation Fellowship (2010-2011)