EDUCATION
1995: Ph.D,
English
Language & Literature, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford
University, England.
1991: M.A. (Oxon),
English Language and Literature, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
University.
1989: B.A. (Hons.) (1st
Class) English Language
&
Literature, St, Hilda’s College, Oxford University.
PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING
2009: Ph.D, Psychoanalysis, Hattie D.
Rosenthal
College of Psychoanalysis of Heed University.
2005-2006: Fellow, Baltimore Washington Institute for
Psychoanalysis, Laurel, Maryland.
2003-2005:
Analytic Candidate, Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and
Mental Health, New
York City.
EMPLOYMENT
Fall
2008-current: Chair, M.A. Program in Engaged Humanities with an
Emphasis in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpenteria,
CA.
Fall
2001-Spring 2008:
Professor, Department of Language & Literature, Maryland
Institute College of
Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD.
Fall 2000-Spring 2001: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
English, Shippensburg University (SU), Pennsylvania.
Fall 1998-Spring 2000: Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana
University (IU),
Bloomington.
Fall 1995-Spring
1998: Lecturer, Communication and Education Studies, University
of
East London (UEL).
Fall 1993-Spring 1995:
Assistant Professor, Department
of English, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), N. Cyprus.
COURSES
TAUGHT
Intellectual
History / Myth / Psychoanalysis
Psychology of Cyberspace (Pacifica, Fall 2008)
Project
Workshop (Pacifica: Summer 2008)
Initiation, Ritual & Ceremony (Pacifica: Winter,
2008)
Mythology & Contemporary Inflections (Pacifica, Winter 2008)
Cultural Foundations of Depth Psychology (Pacifica, Winter 2008)
Cultural Foundations of Clinical Psychology (Pacifica, Winter 2008)
Modern
Folklore (MICA: Spring 2001, 2005)
(Grad)
Early Folklore (MICA: Fall 2006)
Myth, Magic
and Ritual (MICA: Fall 2004; 2005; Spring 2008)
Thanatology (MICA: Fall 2004, Spring 2006)
Methods of Inquiry (UEL: Spring 1996, 1997, 1998)
Cultural
Studies and Critical Theory
Critical Inquiry (MICA: Fall 2002-2008; Spring 2001-2008)
Apocalypse
Culture (IU: Fall 1998, 1999; Summer 1999; MICA: Fall 2001, 2002, 2003).
Dream Workshop (MICA: Fall 2003; Spring 2005; Fall 2007)
Understanding Suicide (MICA: Fall 2001)
Making Sense of Our Experience (UEL: Fall 1995, 1996, 1997)
Understanding Working Class Culture (UEL: Spring 1996, 1997, 1998)
Youth Culture (UEL: Spring 1996; 1997, 1998)
Television Fictions (UEL: Fall 1995, 1996, 1997)
Introduction to Popular Culture (IU: Spring 1999, 2000)
Semiotics (EMU: Spring 1993, 1994) (Grad)
Celebrity (MICA: Fall 2002)
Theories of Madness (MICA: Fall 2005)
Literature
Reading Nabokov (MICA: Spring 2008)
Reading Poe (MICA: Spring 2007)
The Contemporary Memoir (MICA: Fall 2006)
Banned Books: The Literature of Controversy (MICA: Spring 2002)
Tales of Murder and
Madness (MICA: Spring 2002)
Fictions of Addiction (IU: Summer 2000)
Narrative Illustration (MICA: Spring 2003)
American Literature II (EMU: Fall 1993, 1994)
Shakespeare (EMU: Fall 1993; MICA: Fall 2004)
Twentieth Century British Drama (EMU: Fall 1993)
Eighteenth Century British Drama (EMU: Spring 1994, 1995)
Twentieth Century British Poetry (EMU: Fall 1994)
Literature of the Middle Ages (EMU: Spring 1994, 1995; IU Fall 2000; SU
Spring 2001)
Literature and Psychology (EMU: Fall 1994)
Major Characters in Western Literature: The Lover; The Imposter (IU:
Fall 1998, 1999)
Major Themes in Western Literature: Folly; The Naked City (IU: Spring
1999, 2000)
Grammar and Composition (EMU: Fall 1993; IU: Fall 2000; SU Spring 2001)
Literature and the Other Arts, 1870-1950 (IU: Spring 1999, 2000)
The Short Story (IU: Fall 2000; SU Spring 2001)
Film
Cinema and Society (UEL: Fall 1995, 1996, 1997)
Film Discourses (UEL: Spring 1996, 1997, 1998)
Film Interpretations of Literature (IU: Fall 1998, 1999)
Film as Art: Hitchcock (MICA: Spring 2003)
Contemporary Film Theory (MICA: Fall 2005) (Grad)
Horror Movies (MICA: Fall 2007)
SUPERVISION
& ADVISING
Minor Advisor, MICA. Critical Theory, Creative
Writing.
Guest Critic, Rinehart Graduate Program in Sculpture, MICA: Fall 2007.
Advisor for final critiques, MA in Digital Arts, MICA: Spring 2004,
2005.
Supervisor: Visakh Menon, Spring 2006: Hired Mourners and
Funeral Rituals
Supervisor:
Ruth Goldberg, Empire State College, MA Thesis. The Disembodied Hand
(May 2001)
Ruth Goldberg, Anthropology of the Horror Film, Union Graduate
Institute, Ph.D (in progress)
Francine Ladd, The Use of White Gold, Ph.D, Pacifica Graduate Institute
(in progress)
Karmit Elazir,
Massacusetts Institute of Professional Psychology. Love:
A Matter of Life and Death, Ph.D. (May 2004).
EDITORIAL
POSITIONS
Book reviewer Popmatters
Columnist, "Sub Rosa," Popmatters
Creative Nonfiction Editor, Trillium
Literary Journal
Blogger, The Huffington Post
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The
Solitary Vice: Against
Reading, New York, Soft Skull/Counterpoint, March 2008.
High
Theory / Low Culture, New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.
Offensive
Films,
Nashville, TN:
Vanderbilt University Press. Reissue. Fall 2005.
(Originally published Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1997).
Funny
Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor,
Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press (2004).
Car
Crash Culture (editor), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Jack Nicholson: Movie
Top Ten
(editor), London: Creation Books, 2001.
Hollywood Hex: Death and
Destiny in
the Dream Factory, London: Creation Books, 2000.
Meat is Murder! An
Illustrated
Guide
to Cannibal Culture, London: Creation Books, 1998.
Peer-Reviewed Journal
Articles
(selected)
"Psychoanalysis & Magic: Then and Now" American Imago (2010), Vol. 66, No.
4, 471-489.s
"A Company Man: A Case of White Collar Crime," American Journal of
Psychoanalysis (2009), 69, 121-135.
"Thanatos
in Cyberspace:
Mythology and the Internet," Spring:
A Journal of Archetype
and Culture, Winter 2008.
"Some
Thoughts about Dream
Aesthetics," Image and
Narrative, November 2008
(http://www.imageandnarrative.be/Timeandphotography/brottman.html)
"Nightmares
in Cyberspace:
Moral Panics, Urban Legends, and the Dark Side of the Net," Vooys
12.7, 65-78
(Netherlands, translated by Koen Leurs,
illustrated by Ray Jones).
"Debauchery
Next Door: The Boundaries of Shame in Abigail's
Party, Quarterly
Review of
Film
and Video, Summer 2007.
"Is the
Internet a Portal to
Hell? Inner Space, Superstition & Cybersex", Bad
Subjects 74, Intermedia, Jan 2006.
Irréversible
(with David Sterritt), Film
Quarterly,
Winter
2003-2004, 27.2, 37-42.
"Apocalypse
in Suburbia," Iowa
Journal of Cultural Studies (invited
contribution), 3 (2003), 8-20.
"Risus
Sardonicus:Apocalyptic and
Pathological Laughter," Humor: The
International Journal
of Humor
Research 15. 4
(2002),
410-417.
"The
End of the Road: J.G. Ballard/ David Cronenberg’s Crash
and the Fading of the Self" (with Christopher
Sharrett),
Literature/Film
Quarterly, 30.
2,( 002),
126-132.
“Everybody
Loves Somebody: The A&E “Rat Pack” Biographies,” Biography:
An Interdisciplinary Quarterly,
23.1 (2000), 160-176.
“Return
of the Freakshow: Carnival (De)Formations and Popular Culture,”
(Written with David Brottman),
Studies
in Popular
Culture 18.2,
1996, 89-107 (Winner of the George Whatley
Award,
Best Critical
Essay, 1996).
“Classical
Trivia: The Rhetoric of Page Three,” PostScript
2.1 (1997), 3-15.
“The
Last Stop of Desire: Covent Garden as Spatial Text,” Consumption,
Markets and Culture
1.1 (1997),
45-79.
“Carnivalising
the Taboo: The Mondo Film,” CineAction,
4.4 (1995), 32-44.
“Fecal
Phantoms: The Terror of The Tingler,” Film
Quarterly
50.4
(1994), 2-11.
“Bakhtin
and Popular Culture,” New Literary History
23.3 (1992), 765-783.
Book
Chapters (selected)
"Nightmares
in Cyberspace:
Moral Panics, Urban Legends, and the Dark Side of the Net," in C'Lick
Me: A Netporn Reader,
ed. Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen, & Matteo Pasquinelli,
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2005.
(Creative commons: download at
http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/24.pdf)
"DSM
300.30," Illness in the
Academy, ed. Kimberly Myers, PurdueUniversity Press, 2007
(in press).
"The Last Stop of
Desire: Roland
Barthes Goes Shopping," The
Aesthetics of Human Environments, ed. Allen Carlson &
Arnold
Berleant,
Westview Press, Spring 2007.
"Carnivalizing the
Taboo: The Mondo
Film," in Stephen Prince, ed., The
Horror Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series),
Rutgers University
Press, 2004.
"The Fascination of the
Abomination:
The Censored Images of 9/11,
Film
and Television after 9/11, ed. Wheeler Winston
Dixon,
Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
"Ritual,
Tension and Relief: The Terror of The
Tingler," Planks
of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film, ed.
Barry Keith
Grant
and
Christopher Sharrett, Scarecrow Press,
2004.
"Lost in La Mancha: The
Making,
Unmaking and Remaking
of
Terry Gilliam", (with David Sterritt), in Terry
Gilliam: Interviews
(Conversations
with Filmmakers Series), ed. David Sterritt and
Lucille
Rhodes, University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
"Bakhtin
& Popular Culture," Bakhtin
(Masters of Sociological
Thought), ed. Michael Gardiner, New York: Sage, 2003.
"The Wicker
Man" & "L'Humanité"
(with David Sterritt), The
Hidden God, ed. Mary Lea Bandy & Antonio Monda,
NY: MOMA,
2003.
"Kinda Funny
Lookin': Steve Buscemi's Disorderly Body," The
Coen Brothers' Fargo, Cambridge Film Handbooks,
ed. William
Luhr, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
"The
Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis," Enfant
Terrible: Jerry Lewis in American Film, ed. Murray
Pomerance,
New
York: NYU Press, 2002.
"Why I Hate
Gwyneth Paltrow: A Look Back at Anger," Inappropriate
Behaviour: Prada Sucks and Other Demented
Descants,
ed. Jessica
Berens & Kerri Sharp, London: Serpent's Tail, 2002.
"Gershon
Legman: Lord of the Lewd," Sex
and Humor: Selections from the Kinsey Institute, ed.
Catherine
Johnson, Betsy Stirratt
& John Bancroft,
Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2002.
"Star
Cults
/ Cult Stars: Cinema, Psychosis, Celebrity, Death," Unruly
Pleasures: The Cult Film and its Critics, ed. Xavier
Mendik
&
Graham Harper, London: FAB Press, 2000.
"Fecal
Phantoms: The Terror of The
Tingler,"
Trash
Aesthetics: Popular Culture and its Audience, ed. Heidi
Kaye,
Deborah Cartmell,
Imelda Whelehan & I.Q.
Hunter, London:
Pluto Press, 1997.
"Blueprints
and Bodies: Paradigms of Desire in Pornography," Ethics
and the Subject (Critical Studies 8), ed. Karl Simms,
Editions
Rodopi, 1997.
Encyclopedia Entries
"Mikita Brottman's Ten Favorite Horror Movie
Psychoanalysts," The Book of
Lists: Horror, edited by
Scott Bradley,
Amy Wallace, and Del Howison; HarperCollins; 2008.
Entry on "Cult
Movies," Schirmer
Encyclopedia of Film, ed. Barry
Keith Grant, NY: Schirmer, 2006.
Entries
on "Gershon Legman," " Jay
& Fran
Landesman," Beat
Culture: Lifestyles,
Icons and Impact, ed. William Lawlor,
New York: ABC-Clio, 2005.
Entries on "Candia
McWilliam," "Bernice Rubens," "Julie Burchill," " Jilly Cooper," Encyclopedia
of British Women
Writers,
2nd edition, ed. Paul and June
Schleuter,
New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002.
Entries on "Cultural
Studies," "Postcolonialism," Routledge
International
Encyclopedia of Women:
Global
Women's Issues and Knowledge, ed.
Cheris
Kramerae & Dale Spender, NY: Routledge, 2000.
Conference
Presentations (selected)
The Pulse of Death Now, Columbia University Seminar on Death, March
2008.
Society
for Cinema
and Media Studies, Philadelphia, March 2008.
Keynote
address, "The
Politics of Netporn", Institute of Network Cultures, De
Badecuyp,
Amsterdam, September
2006
Society for Cinema
and Media Studies, London, March 2005 (Panel Chair)
Columbia University
Seminar on Science and Religion (with David Sterritt), November 2003.
Keynote address, "Born to be Bad: Trash Cinema", Cinema Studies,
Berkeley, May 4-7, 2003.
Society for Cinema
Studies, Minnesota, May 2003 (with David Sterritt).
25th
Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, Florida, January
2003.
Mel Hoppenheim
School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, November 2002
(invited speaker).
Sideshow Residency,
Maryland Institute College of Art, October 2002 (panel chair).
Modern Language
Association (with David Sterritt), New York, December 2002.
Society for Cinema
Studies, Denver, May 2002 (panel co-chair).
24th
Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, Florida, January 2002
(panel chair).
Modern Language
Association (with David Sterritt), New Orleans, December 2001.
Art and Soul (with
David Sterritt), Baylor University, Texas, June 2001.
Columbia University
Seminar on Cinema and Interpretation, New York, December 2001
(invited speaker).
Scholarships,
Grants
Honors (selected)
Permament
Immigrant Visa Status granted as Extraordinary Professor or Researcher,
March 2006
Fellowship, Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, Fall
2005-summer 2006
Lucas
Research Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2001, 2002.
Faculty
Research Award, Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 1998,
1999.
George
Whatley Award, Studies in Popular Culture Best
Essay, 1996.
Higher
Education Funding Council of England Teaching Award, University of
East London, December 1997;
Higher
Education Funding Council of England Research Award, March 1996.
Humanities
and Social Sciences Research Grant, University of East London, Jan.
1996.
Dorothy
Wordsworth Literature Prize, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford,
February
1998
Jennifer
Hines Essay Prize: Religion and Ethics, St. Hilda’s College,
Oxford, May 1987.
Nielsen
Scholarship, Oxford University, September 1986, 1987, 1988.
Professional
Affiliations
Academy
for
the
Psychoanalytic Arts
Columbia
University Seminar for Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation
American
Psychoanalytic Association
Modern
Language Association
Society
for Cinema and Media Studies
National
Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Professional
References Available upon Request.
Mikita
Brottman
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Ojai, CA 93023-9731
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