Christopher Lane

Chris Lane
Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature
University Hall Room 206
Telephone: (847) 491-7475
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: clane@northwestern.edu

Christopher Lane (Ph.D. University of London) teaches and writes about mostly Victorian and modern British fiction, and has secondary expertise in 19th-century psychology, psychiatry, and intellectual history. He is the author of four books: The Ruling Passion (Duke, 1995), The Burdens of Intimacy (Chicago, 1999), Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (Columbia, 2004, 2006), and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale, 2007; French translation forthcoming with Editions Flammarion; Korean translation forthcoming with Hankyoreh Publishing). He is also the editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (Columbia, 1998) and a coeditor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Chicago, 2001). He’s written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal Online, International Herald Tribune, and New Statesman and Society, and published articles in journals such as Raritan, Novel, Victorian Studies, ELH, Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, Common Knowledge, and the Oxford Literary Review.

Professor Lane serves on the boards of several journals, including Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the British Academy, Emory University’s Research Council, the Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, Northwestern’s Kaplan Humanities Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation (2005-06). He is completing a book on Victorian agnosticism entitled Failing Gods: A Century of Doubt (under contract with Yale University Press).

Christopher Lane's Shyness Resources (Personal Webpage)

Publications by Christopher Lane

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

The Burdens of Intimacy

The Ruling Passion

Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis

The Psychoanalysis of Race

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