Dr. Jean Michel Rabaté

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Biography

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an influential figure in the fields of modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, and philosophy, having authored and edited over 40 books focusing on notable writers such as Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce. His significant works include 'Lacan Literario' (2007), '1913: Cradle Modernism' (2007), 'Ethic Lie' (2008), and 'Handbook Modernism Studies' (2013). Rabaté has served as a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and as a founding curator of the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. His research interests encompass 20th-Century British Literature, Psychoanalytic Studies, and Transatlantic Studies, emphasizing the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis. He is a managing editor for the Journal of Modern Literature and has edited various texts that contribute to the understanding of modernist aesthetics and literary theory.

Research Interests

20th-Century British Literature Psychoanalytic Studies Transatlantic Studies

Courses

ENGL 0021.401 Uncanny Horror: Film Psychoanalysis ENGL 8000.302 Pedagogy ENGL 0052.401 Introduction Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Practice ENGL 5901.401 Lessons Horror ENGL 1430.401 Uncanny Horror: Film Psychoanalysis ENGL 2071.401 Modernism? ENGL 1740.401 Woolf Eliot Dialogue ENGL 1070.401 Modernisms Modernities: Kafka, Joyce, Beckett ENGL 0052.401 Introduction Psychoanalysis ENGL 5900.401 Wet Ropes: Splicing Philosophy Literature ENGL 1071.401 Fashion Modernity ENGL 2073.401 Modernist Animals: Rethink Human-Animal Divide ENGL 0021.401 Study of Theme: Uncanny Horror: Film Psychoanalysis ENGL 059.401 Modernisms Modernities: Kafka, Joyce, Beckett ENGL 065.401 Love Age Cynicism ENGL 102.401 Introduction Psychoanalysis ENGL 259.401 Truth Lies Literature Film ENGL 059.401 T.S. Eliot's War: Waste Land ENGL 259.401 Modernist Fashion, Literature Theory ENGL 705.401 Laughtears ENGL 065.001 Love Age Cynicism ENGL 094.402 Intro Psychoanalysis Literature Film ENGL 294.402 Theory Letter B: Badiou, Bakhtin, Barthes, Benjamin, Beauvoir, Borges Butler Common? ENGL 059.401 Beckett ENGL 601.401 History Literature Theory ENGL 259.401 Modernism Theory Fashion ENGL 295.401 Parallel Histories: Psychoanalysis Film ENGL 094.401 Main Concepts Literary Cultural Theory Beginners ENGL 259.401 1922, Year Modernist Masterpieces ENGL 016.303 JM Coetzee: Africa Australia ENGL 259.401 Beckett Kafka ENGL 102.401 Uncanny Horror: Literature, Film, Psychoanalysis ENGL 259.301 T.S. Eliot's Waste Land ENGL 102.404 Talk Talk Love: Age Cynicism ENGL 292.402 Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film: Culture Psychoanalysis ENGL 259.301 Beckett, Late Modernist ENGL 294.301 Theory Letter B ENGL 259.301 Modernisms: 1922/2022 ENGL 292.403 Psychoanalysis, Literature Film ENGL 094.401 Introduction Literary Cultural Theory ENGL 361.401 Colors Literature ENGL 094.401 Introduction Literary Cultural Theory ENGL 358.301 Reading Joyce ENGL 259.301 Joyce Kafka ENGL 359.301 Modernism Theory Fashion ENGL 094.401 Introduction Literary Theory ENGL 790.402 Return Lacan ENGL 094.402 Theory Letter "B" ENGL 258.301 Ulysses ENGL 016.302 Colors Literature Part Black Blue ENGL 592.301 Samuel Beckett Jean Genet ENGL 094.401 Global Theory: Introduction ENGL 259.401 Joyce Kafka ENGL 394.401 Human Animal ENGL 600.301 Proseminar Literary Theory ENGL 258.301 Reading James Joyce ENGL 359.301 Lies Literature Politics ENGL 258.301 Reading Joyce ENGL 768.301 Joyce Proust ENGL 257.301 Reading Joyce ENGL 591.401 Excessive Form: Modernism Formalism ENGL 294.401 New Materialisms New Mythologies: Barthes, Benjamin, Bataille, Blanchot ENGL 790.401 Hegel ENGL 059.401 Modernisms Modernities ENGL 571.401 History Literary Theory ENGL 204.401 Literary Theory: ENGL 210.401 Modernism Psychoanalysis ENGL 571.640 Freud ENGL 304.401 1913 ENGL 600.301 Proseminar ENGL 204.401 Literary Theory ENGL 790.401 Giving Gift Theory Literary History ENGL 210.401 Modernist Heroes ENGL 304.401 Student: Jacqueline Rogozinski ENGL 404.640 Engaging Contemporary Art ENGL 592.640 Novel Death Novel ENGL 210.401 Modernism ENGL 261.301 Topics Modern British Literature ENGL 104.401 Twentieth Century ENGL 773.401 Modernist Hero Age ENGL 571.401 Literary Theory ENGL 773.401 Hard Soft Modernism ENGL 265.301 Topics Modern British Novel ENGL 095.401 Intro Cultural Studies ENGL 065.001 Twentieth-Century British Novel ENGL 061.001 20th Century British Lit. ENGL 095.401 Introduction Cultural Studies ENGL 571.601 Freud After (from Freud Lacan)

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
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