Dr. Rebecca Falkoff

Biography

Rebecca Falkoff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on Italian and comparative literary and cultural studies, delving into the entanglements of psychic and narrative economies. She previously taught at institutions such as Berkeley, Northwestern, New York University, College London, and Johns Hopkins University. Falkoff's work includes a book titled 'Possessed' published by Cornell University Press in 2021, which traces the cultural history of hoarding obsessions in the 19th century, relating them to modern diagnostic criteria for hoarding disorder. She is also developing a current book project exploring the implications of nitrogen capture in fascist Italy. Falkoff has published essays on significant figures such as Giorgio Manganelli and Primo Levi, and her interests encompass environmental humanities, health humanities, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and waste studies.

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