Rachel Greenspan

PhD in Literature and a Certificate in Feminist Studies from Duke University

Rachel Greenspan received her PhD in Literature and a Certificate in Feminist Studies from Duke University. Her dissertation, Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora, investigates the transnational circulation of psychoanalytic theory and practice as it comes to inform shifting conceptions of sexual difference in Latin America. Her research interests include global modernisms, transnational gender and sexuality studies, critical theory, film and visual culture, intellectual history, and psychoanalysis. She is Managing Editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and an Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Her writing has appeared in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, The Comparatist, and Polygraph.