B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Virginia

Professor Ian is the author of Remembering the Phallic Mother: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and the Fetish (Cornell University Press, 1993).  She is currently writing a book entitled American 'Secularity': The James Family and Others, which examines the writing of Henry James, Sr., William James, and Henry James in relation to America's mythic idea of itself as a "secular" nation.  She is interested more generally in the intersections (and lack thereof) of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and religion, and has published essays on these subjects as well as on Henry James and, in a not entirely unrelated development, certain aspects of popular culture, especially female bodybuilding.

Psychoanalytic Theory

Literary Theory

Theories of Interiority

Issues and Problems in Literary Theory

Modern Novel

Twentieth-Century Literature

Psychoanalytic Theory

Feminist Theory

Literary Theory

Literary Modernism

The James Family

Modern British Novel