Psyche on Campus Blog

Edited by Max Cavitch

Psyche on Campus is a blog edited by Professor Max Cavitch of the University of Pennsylvania, reaching more than 17,000 readers — primarily teachers, clinicians, academics, and researchers, with a growing student readership at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Posts explore psychoanalytic ideas as they live inside the classroom, the curriculum, and academic life more broadly. The blog also features a syllabus archive where you can view the ever-expanding pdf collection of undergraduate course syllabi, supplied by Psyche on Campus contributors and readers.

If you have a psychoanalytically oriented, undergraduate course syllabus that you’d like to share, of if you have event or other announcement related to psychoanalysis and undergraduate education that you’d like to see posted to Psyche on Campus, please send the details to: [email protected].

Max Cavitch joined University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1999, after receiving his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Rutgers. Before his retirement in 2026, he taught courses on many forms and phases of American and Anglophone literature of the modern period. Now, as an independent scholar, his research interests continue to include Animal Studies, Cinema and New Media Studies, Comparative Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexuality studies, and Psychoanalytic Studies. He is the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (2007) and Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present (2025) and the co-translator (with Noura Wedell and Paul Grant) of Jean Louis Schefer’s L’homme ordinaire du cinéma [The Ordinary Man of Cinema] (MIT Press, 2016).

Edited by Max Cavitch

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