VERA J. CAMDEN Vera J. Camden Is Professor Of

VERA J. CAMDEN Vera J. Camden Is Professor Of

VERA J. CAMDEN Vera J. Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and Clinical Faculty of Social Work at Rutgers University. She is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. A member of the Committee on Research and Special Training at the American Psychoanalytic Association, she is Co-editor of American Imago, and on the editorial board of The American Psychoanalyst and Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Dissent. She specializes in seventeenth-century British literature, psychoanalysis, and comics and graphic narratives. EDUCATION University of Virginia Ph.D. 1986 University of Chicago M.A. 1977 Arizona State University B.A. 1976 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1976 EMPLOYMENT Academic Kent State University Professor of English, 2004-present Associate Professor of English, 1991-2003 Associate Director, Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, 1986-1994 Clinical Consultation Case Western Reserve University, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, 2005- present. Rutgers University, Clinical Faculty, School of Social Work, 2012-present. Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center Training and Supervising Analyst 2006-present. University Hospitals of Cleveland, Resident Training, Department of Psychiatry, 2004- present. Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst” for the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education of the NYU Medical School. 2016-present. Teaching Awards Kent State Women’s Center, Mentor Award, 2015 Distinguished Teacher Award, College of Arts and Science, KSU, 2015 Research Grants (since 2000) Travel and Research Grants (Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center), 1995-2005 Research Council Grants (KSU): 2000, 2006, 2009, 2012 Research Council Travel Grants (KSU) 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012 2014 Ohio Humanities Council “Major Grant” (2016) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND OFFICES Comics Studies Society, Founding Member, 2016- present Institute for Bibliographical and Textual Editing, Kent State University, Fellow 2008-present The Newberry Library Consortium Representative, 2011-2016 KSU, Women’s Studies, Affiliate, 1996-present. International John Bunyan Society, President, 1999-2001, current Board Member The Modern Language Association, member, 2003-present Wick Poetry Center, Advisory Board, Kent State University, 2009- 2014 Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center Foundation, Trustee, 2007-2010 Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, Chair, Admissions Committee 2009-present The Psychoanalyst Assistance Committee, 2006-present The Psychiatric Education Foundation Fund, 2005-2014 The Brian and Dora Bird Foundation, Trustee, 2000-2013 The American Psychoanalytic Association, Member, 1996-present Psychoanalysis and Education, 2004-present Psychoanalysis and the Arts, 2003-present Psychoanalysis and the Academy, 2010-present The CORST Essay Prize Committee, Founding Chair, 1997-2007 The Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST), 1995-present The Center for Advanced Psychoanalysis, Fellow, 2009-2013 The Board on Professional Standards, Fellow, 2009-2015 The Committee on Certification, 2012-2013 The Committee on Institutes, 2015-present The International Psychoanalytic Association, 1996-present Editorial Boards and Consultation Faculty Mentor, Hong Kong Baptist University, November, 2009 Site Visit Chair, MA in Psychoanalysis, Emory University, 2008 Literature Compass Editorial Consultant, Blackwell, Oxford, 2005-2007 The American Psychoanalyst, 2003-present The Israel Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2000-2003 Bunyan Studies, 2006-present The Brown University Women Writers Project, 1991-2013 The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1999-2001 External Review Dartmouth University, (2002) Texas A&M (2006), Brandeis University (2009); Hong Kong Baptist University (2012); Weill Cornell Medical College (2014); External Reader Johns Hopkins University Press; University of Chicago Press; Yale University Press; Routledge Press; Thames and Hudson Press; Kent State University Press, Cambridge University Press: The American Psychoanalytic Association Book Prize, 2014-present; selected journals: American Imago; Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; Modernism/Modernity; Bunyan Studies; Prose Studies; International Journal of Psychoanalysis PUBLICATIONS(selected) Edited Books The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont. Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 2002. Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007. Journal Editorships Co-Editor, American Imago, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000-present Edited Journal Special Issues Dissenting Women in John Bunyan’s World and Work. Ed. Bunyan Studies 7 (1997). Early Women Analysts. Ed. American Imago 60.2 (2003). Identity, Agency and Gender in John Bunyan’s England. Ed. with K. Hill. Bunyan Studies 11 (2004). Book Chapters “The Psychoanalytic Progress of Alison Bechdel.” In The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration. Ed., Adele Tutter, New York: Routledge, 2016. “ ‘Pure Heroines’ on Campus: New-Wave Feminism and Popular Culture.” In The Status of Women. ed. Vivian Pender, M.D., Karnac Press, 2016. “ ‘Cartoonis Lumps’: The Medieval Modes of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?: In Art/Object: The Artist, the Object, the Patron, and the Audience. Eds., Laurie Wilson and Graziella, Florence: Nicomp. L. E., 2016. “The Touch of Evil and the Triumph of Love in Harry Potter.” In Critical Insights: Good and Evil. Ed. Margaret Breen. Ipswich, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 2013. “The Goodwives of Bedford.” In The Cambridge Companion to John Bunyan, Ed. Anne Dunan-Page. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2010, 51-66. “Young Man Bunyan,” in Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan. Ed. Vera J. Camden. Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2007, 41-62. “The Past is a Foreign Country: The Uses of Literature” in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue.” In Narrative Medicine and Psychoanalysis. Eds. Peter Rudnytsky and Rita Charon. New York, SUNY University Press, 2008, 99-118. “That of Esau: Hebrews xii, 16-17 in Grace Abounding.” In John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing.Ed. N. H. Keeble. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2002, 133-165. Articles “ ‘The Skin She Lives In’: The Skin Ego in the Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard.” American Imago 70.4 (2013): 585-606. “The Unbearable Inner Light: John Bunyan’s Controversy with the Quakers,” Bunyan Studies 14 (2010): 34-56. “Psychoanalysis and the Academy: Practical Aspects and Philosophical Foundations” American Imago 67.4 (2010): 601-605. “ ‘My Capital Secret’: Literature and the Psychoanalytic Agon” The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 90.5 (2009): 1123-1137. “ ‘The Language of Tenderness and of Passion: Sex in Paradise’ or The Place of Sex in Paradise: A Response to Gavin Miller.” New Literary History 38.4 2007): 683-702. “Attending to Sarah Wight: Little Writer of God’s Wonders.” Bunyan Studies 11 (2004): 94-131. Reviews (since 2004) Rev. of Space and Psyche. Eds. Elizabeth Danze, Stephen Sonnenberg (Austin, Tx. Center for American Architecture and Design 2012, International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2016). “An Introduction to ‘She Being Dead Yet Speaketh’: The Private Papers of Mary Franklin” The Recorder: The Newsletter of the International John Bunyan Society (2014). Rev. Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion by Lois Oppenheim. New York, Routledge, 2012, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Spring 2014, 1029-35. Rev. Are You My Mother?A Comic Drama and Fun Home: A Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel in “New Voices” The American Psychoanalyst. Winter, 2012, 19, 30. Rev. With Culture in Mind, Psychoanalytic Stories Ed, Muriel Dimen in Division/Review: A Psychoanalytic Forum, 2011. Rev. of A Story of Her Own: the Female Oedipus Complex, Reexamined and Renamed. Nancy Kulish and Deanna Holtzman , American Imago 68:1, Spring 2011, 139-149. Rev. of The Desire of the Analysts ed. Henry Sussman, SUNY, 2007, Intertexts, Fall, 2009, 153-156. Rev. of Adaptations by Phillip Freeman, American Imago,65.2 Summer 2008, 113- 1137. Rev. of Graceful Reading, by Michael Davies, Bunyan Studies (Winter, 2007). Works in Progress Special issue on Wonder Woman of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Spring 2018). Eds. Camden, Coogan, Zullo. “Ursula von Rydingsvard and Giotto” Florence Symposium on Psychoanalysis and Art, May, 2017. “The Artist’s Touch in Clinical Transformation” (Plenary). American Association of Psychoanalytic Social Workers (AAPSW), March 2017, Baltimore Maryland. “‘Leap Tall Building in a Single Bound’: Psychoanalysis, Comics and Architecture” Organizer MLA Panel, January 2017. “John Bunyan in Bed: Carnality and Creativity.” Immortality and the Body in Renaissance British Literary Culture: Essays in Honor of William Kerrigan. Eds. Steven Fallon and John Rumrich. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming, 2017. “She Being Dead Yet Speaketh”: The Private Papers of Mrs. Mary Franklin The Other Voice Series (English language series editor, Elizabeth H. Hageman), published jointly by Iter (at the University of Toronto) and The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. “John Bunyan and Psychoanalytic Criticism” The Oxford Handbook to John Bunyan Ed. Michael Davies, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). “John Bunyan: Calvinism and Carnality” Eighth Triennial International John Bunyan Society Conference, Aix-en-Provence, July 2016. Invited Lectures “Applied Psychoanalysis: Depth vs. Chutzpah” Panel discussion

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