Teresa de Lauretis Dark Passages: Djuna Barnes and Freud

Feminist film and literary scholar Teresa de Lauretis presents this year's Kane Lecture. Teresa de Lauretis is a professor in the History of Consciousness Program at University of California, Santa Cruz, and one of the foremost scholars in feminist film theory and psychoanalytic approaches to literature. Her lecture tonight charts the darker currents of desire that run through Barnes's work, including the classic modernist novel Nightwood (1936). De Lauretis is the author of Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (1984), Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction (1987), and The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire (1994).