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Dr. Katherine Ebury is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, currently working on an AHRC-funded project about modern literature, psychoanalysis, and the death penalty. Her previous publications include Modernism and Cosmology and Joyce's Non-Fiction Writings, as well as a range of articles and chapters on modernism and science (topics have included astronomy, criminology, racial science and eugenics, and vivisection). She is the organizer (with Dr. Samraghni Bonnerjee) of the recent conference on "Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis, 1890-1950," an international, interdisciplinary event which explored relationships between literature, law, and psychoanalysis, allowing productive mixing of canonical and popular literature.

Jane Hanenberg, Ed.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she has regularly taught classes about dreams and child development. She has presented and published papers about adoption fantasies in adolescence, the development of female adolescence as it is represented in the literature of young adults, and the fairy tale as a contemporary developmental metaphor. She is a parttime Lecturer in psychiatry (psychology) at Harvard Medical School, where she provides training and supervision to interns.

Christine Maksimowicz, Ph.D. in English, is currently completing a monograph entitled Who Do You Think You Are?: Recovering the Self in the Working-Class Escape Narrative, a work that explores unrecognized classed injury in fiction and the pivotal roles imagination and self-narration in recuperative processes. Christine has been a Fellow at the American Psychoanalytic Association Fellow and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, as well as the recipient of APsaA's CORST Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis & Culture and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute's Julius Silberger Prize. She presently serves as the book review editor for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and [End Page 287] recently joined the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.

Donna Orange, PhD, PsyD, educated in philosophy, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis, teaches at NYU Postdoc (New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy) and at IPSS (Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York); and in private study groups. She held the Freud Fulbright in Vienna in 2018 and is visiting professor of phenomenology at Duquesne University, Fall, 2019. Recent books are Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010), The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011), Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis (2016), and Climate Justice, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (2017). Her next project concerns hearing the voices of those silenced by history, by culture, by ourselves.

Dr. Gavriel Reisner (Ben-Ephraim) is a licensed New York State psychoanalyst, completing his psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City. He received a PhD in English Literature from the Hebrew University where he became Lecturer in English. Dr. Reisner went on to positions as Lecturer in English and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Multidisciplinary Studies (Literature, Film, and Psychoanalysis) at Tel Aviv University. He received a Visiting Fellowship to the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University. His many publications on literature and psychoanalysis include books, articles, chapters in compilations, and reviews, and he is a published poet and short story writer. His best-known work is The Death Ego and The Vital Self: Romances of Desire in Literature and Psychoanalysis. In 2015, he won the CORST Prize for an outstanding interdisciplinary essay from the American Psychoanalytic Association for "On Ghosted and Ancestral Selves in Hamlet: Loewald's 'Present Life' and Winnicott's 'Potential Space' in Shakespeare's Play."

John Rosegrant trained in Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychoanalysis at the Contemporary Freudian Society in New [End Page 288] York City. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, Supervising Analyst at the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center, and Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has spoken and published on a wide variety of topics including psychoanalytic technique, short-term psychotherapy, play therapy, dreams, fairy tales, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the World of Warcraft computer game, and edited a special issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology on "Adolescents, Children, & Technology" (Vol. 68, Issue 11, Nov. 2012). He...

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