Associate Professor of English
- Film
- Historiography and Historical Writing
- Life Writing, Auto/biography
- Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History
- Poetry/ Poetics
- Britain
- Global Anglophone
- US
- Western Europe
- World Literature
- Deconstruction
- Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
- Narratology
- Psychoanalysis
- Sociology of Literature
- Translation
- Trauma
Fields of Study
Research Interests:
Max Cavitch's chief areas of interest include early American literature, poetry and poetics, psychoanalysis, and cinema. Current projects include an article on the film collaborations of Franco-Egyptian director Safaa Fathy and Jacques Derrida, as well as a book-in-progress called Mad Poet of Philadelphia: Toward a New Literary Psychohistory.