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African American and American Literature and Culture, Lacanian and Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory, Race Studies, Diasporic Black Women Writers, Contemporary Theory, Literary Modernism and Realism, The Harlem Renaissance, Toni Morrison.

Ph.D. in English, Boston College
BA The City College of New York

.  Ed. by Sheldon George and Jean Wyatt.  Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing. Bloomsbury Press, 2024.

. Ed. by Sheldon George and Derek Hook.  Routledge Press, 2021.

. Ed. by Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George. Routledge Press, 2020.

.  Texas: Baylor UP, 2016.  

Journal Special Issues:

Issue on “Dreaming with Spillers: Gender, Race and the Other.” Ed. by Sheldon George, Stephanie Swales, and Amy Stewart.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 27(4), Forthcoming, 2026.

Issue on “Riding with Oedipus: Flesh, Fantasy and Psychoanalysis.” Ed. by Stephanie Swales, Sheldon George, and Amy Stewart. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 27(3), Forthcoming, 2026.

Issue on “.”  Ed. by Sheldon George and Derek Hook.  Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  Sept. 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 3.

Issue on “.”  Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  Ed. by Annie Stopford and Sheldon George.  Dec 2014, Vol. 19, Issue 4.

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“The Intersection of Race and The Feminine: Invidia and the Fault in Subjectivity.” Special issue on “Dreaming with Spillers: Gender, Race and the Other.” Ed. by Sheldon George, Stephanie Swales, and Amy Stewart.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 27(4), Forthcoming, 2026.

“Riding With Oedipus: A Transcript of the 2025 Psychology and the Other Keynote Address by Hortense J. Spillers.” Special issue on “Riding with Oedipus: Flesh, Fantasy and Psychoanalysis.” Ed. by Stephanie Swales, Sheldon George, and Amy Stewart. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 27(3), Forthcoming, 2026.

“Narrative Technique in the Novels of Toni Morrison: Psychoanalysis and the Unhabitable Black Body.” Toni Morrison In Context. Ed. Stephanie Li.  Cambridge UP, Forthcoming, 2026.

“Femininity and Race: The Libido in Freud and Lacan.”  Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Gender.  Ed. by Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler.  Routledge P, Forthcoming, 2026.

“Whiteness as Plague: a Dialogue Between George Yancy and Sheldon George.”  In the Wake of the Plague: Eros and Mourning, eds. Klaus Mladek, James Godley & Yi Wu. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, Forthcoming 2025.

“Unconscious Resonances: Identification, Até, and the Mythic Emmett Till.” Open Casket: Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till.  Ed.by George Yancy and Todd Franklin.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

“Foreword: The Detumescence of Whiteness.”  Whiteness at the Abyss: A Lacanian Reading of ‘White Anxiety.’ Hook, Derek. Palgrave Lacan Series. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

“Knotting the Psyche: White Fantasy and Racial Violence.”  Special Issue on “Decolonisation and Psychoanalysis.”  Psychotherapy and Politics International. Vol. 22, No. 2, 1–15, 2024. https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/psychotherapy-politics-international/article/view/726/640

“The Suturing of Whiteness: Fantasized Reality and Racial Violence.” Penumbr(a) A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Modernity. Forthcoming, Fall 2024.

Translated into French as: “.” Translated by Sophie Mendelsohn.  Collectif de Pantin.  Fall 2024.

“Victims of the Cross:  Violence and Apocalyptic Discourse in Christian Nationalism.”  .  Ed. by George Yancy.  Rowman & Littlefield, Fall 2023.

“The Sublimation of Race: From the Courtly Lady to the Derelict White Body.”  . Ed. by Carol Owens.  Routledge Press, Fall 2023. 

Co-author with Jean Wyatt.  “Introduction: Experimentation and Subjectivity in Black Global Women’s Novels.”.  Ed. by Sheldon George and Jean Wyatt.  Bloomsbury Press, 2024.

“Desire Beyond the Limits of Sanity:  Subjectivity and Psychic Spatiality in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” .  Ed. by Sheldon George and Jean Wyatt.  Bloomsbury Press, 2024.

“The Lacanian subject of race:  sexuation, the drive, and racial subjectivity.” . Ed. by Sheldon George and Derek Hook.  Routledge Press, 2021.

Co-author with Derek Hook.  “Introduction: theorizing race, racism, and racial identification.” . Ed. by Sheldon George and Derek Hook.  Routledge Press, 2021.

Co-author with Jean Wyatt.  "Introduction: Narrative Theory and Contemporary Black Women Writers." . Ed. by Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George. Routledge Press, 2020.

"Narrating the Raced Subject: Toni Morrison's Jazz and the Literature of Modernism." . Ed. by Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George. Routledge Press, 2020.

“.”  Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  Special Issue on “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions in Culture and Politics.”  Sept. 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 3, p.267-289.

Reprinted in:  .  Edited by David M. Goodman, Eric Severson and Heather Macdonald.  Routledge Press, 2019.

Translated into Portuguese as:  "Gozo e mal-estar: um encontro entre psicanálise, raça e a escravidão Americana."Ubuntu: Psicanálise e Herança Colonial. IN A. Guerra, D. Hook e R. Lima (orgs). Brazil, São Paulo: n-1 Edições,2023.

Co-author with Derek Hook.  “.”  Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  Special Issue on “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions in Culture and Politics.”  Sept. 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 3, p235-243.

Co-interviewer with Derek Hook.  “.”  Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  Special Issue on “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions in Culture and Politics.”  Sept. 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 3, p.350-359.

“The Body that Race Built:  Shame, Trauma and Lack in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child.”  . Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature series.  Ed. Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh. Routledge UP, 2018. 

“.”  Special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society on “Psychoanalysis, African Americans and Inequality.”  Dec 2014, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p360-378. 

“.”  African American Review45.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2012):  115-130. 

“.”  Pedagogy:  Critical Approache

Sheldon George is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (2016), which has been called by scholars “The most important book on psychoanalysis and race in the twenty-first century” and a book that "changed the landscape of thinking about racism.”

George is coeditor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form. The collection, published in 2019, takes narratology in a new direction by inserting race into discussions of narrative theory. He is also coeditor, with Derek Hook, of Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory (2021). This collection is the first to root itself in a direct rethinking of race through Lacanian theory and an active remaking of Lacanian theory through race.

George's most recent publication is an essay collection, coedited with Jean Wyatt, titled Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation (Sept. 2024). The collection explores ways that black women writers from Africa, the UK, the Caribbean and the US experiment with literary form and pioneer stylistic inventions to express the subjectivities of their black characters. His current project is a monograph that studies race through application of Lacanian theory.

George joined the faculty at 91视频 in 2024. In prior appointments, he served variously as Director of Graduate English, Chair of the Department of Literature & Writing, and Director of General Education. He is the recipient of teaching awards at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

George is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and outgoing chair of the MLA Executive Committee for the forum Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature.

Interviews

“.” Simmons University. April 2023. 

“.”  New Books in Psychoanalysis.  Podcast interview with Jordan Osserman.  Oct. 2021. 

“.”  Hosted by Dr. Leon S. Brenner.  Internationale Psychoanalytische Universität Berlin.  Berlin, Germany, Virtual.  October 2021.

“.”  Psychoanalytic Thinking. Hosted by Michael Benn.  Moderated by Andrew Fremont-Smith and Enda Deburca.Virtual. September 2021.

“.”  Rendering Unconscious podcast. Interview by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair.  September 2021.

“Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory. A webinar with authors Sheldon George and Derek Hook.” Book Launch Webinar.  Freud Museum.  London, Virtual. July 2021.

“.’” New Books in Psychoanalysis. New Books Network. Podcast interview by Tracy Morgan.  February 3, 2021.

“.”  Rendering Unconscious podcast. Interview by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair.  August, 8th, 2020.  

“: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity.”  Interviewer Daniel Gaztambide.  PublicSeminar.org. The New School Publishing Initiative. February 15, 2020.  

“.”  Old Mole Variety Hour.  KBOO Portland, Oregon 90.7 FM. Interviewer Janice Haaken.  Nov. 28, 2016.  

Plenary and Keynotes

“Psychoanalysis and Racism: The Vestigial Pleasures of American Slavery.” 27th Annual Summer Institute on the Futures of American Studies. Dartmouth University, July 2024.

“The Stain of Race: Historicizing the Modern Psyche.” University of Lacan? Conference. Vancouver, Canada:  Western Front, April 2026.

“Law and Capital: The Birth of Whiteness and Transatlantic Slavery.”  Department of Private Law.  Centre for Rhetoric Studies. Cape Town, South Africa. University of Cape Town, March 2026.

“Faceless Blackness: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of Racism.” Department of English. Pretoria, South Africa: University of Pretoria, March 2026.

Organizer, Presider, and Respondent to Keynote by Dr. Hortense Spillers.  Dr. Spillers’ talk: “Riding with Oedipus: On the Other Side of the Middle Passage-Some Speculations on Life in the African Diaspora.”  Psychology and the Other Conference.  Boston, MA: Boston College, Sept. 2025.

Respondent to Plenary by Todd McGowan. McGowan’s talk: “From Death Drive to Superego: The Price of Conformity.” Psychology and the Other Conference.  Boston, MA: Boston College, Sept. 2025.

“The Non-Objects of Race & The Vicissitudes of Jouissance: Lacan’s Triadic Schema.” Jouissance, Race, Decoloniality: A Symposium.  The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture. University at Buffalo, SUNY: NY, March 2025.

“Knotting the Psyche: White Fantasy, Police Violence, and the Racialized Imago.”  25th Annual Summer Institute on the Futures of American Studies. Dartmouth University, June 2024.

“The Suturing of Whiteness: Fantasized Reality and Racial Violence.” UBUNTU - 2o. Colóquio Internacional de Decolonização e Psicanálise - O mal-estar colonial: nossas terras, línguas, corpos, memórias e horizontes de transformação. Belo Horizonte, Brasil: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Nov. 2023.

“Lacan’s Theory of Race: From Logical Time and the Raced Body to Foreclosure and the Deracinated Psyche.” Lack IV:  Psychoanalytic Theory in 2023.  Vermont University, April  2023.

“Racism and the Courtly Lady: From the Crusades to the Gentility of Lynchers.”  Lacan: Clinic and Culture. Duquesne University, October 2022.

Respondent to Keynote by Dr. Homi K. Bhabha.  Bhabha’s talk: “Systemic Racism and Traumatic Racism: The Long and the Short of It...”  Psychology and the Other Conference.  Boston, MA:  Boston College, Oct. 2021.

“Psychoanalysis, Race and American Slavery:  Rereading Pleasure and Discontent in Freud and Lacan.”  Psychology and the Other Conference.  Boston, MA:  Boston College, Oct. 2019.

“Racialization and Sexuation: The Channels of Jouissance in the Lacanian Subject.”  Lack iii:  Psychoanalysis and Separation.  Worcester, MA: Clark U, May 2019.

“Frantz Fanon and the Trauma of Race.”  Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence.  Coventry UK:  Warwick University, March 2015.