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Elissa Marder teaches in the French and Comparative Literature Departments at Emory University where she is also affiliated with the Departments of Philosophy and Women’s Studies. She is a founding member of the Emory Psychoanalytic Studies Program and served as its Director from 2001-2006. Her book Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) was published by Stanford University Press in 2001. She has published numerous essays on diverse topics in literature, literary theory, feminism, film, photography and psychoanalysis. Her new book, The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, and Deconstruction is forthcoming from Fordham University Press in October, 2011. She is also working on a number of other projects including: a book on early 19th century French Literature, Revolutionary Perversions, and a study of Walter Benjamin’s writings in French.