Christopher Lane

     Professor of English

     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, with secondary expertise in 19th-century psychology, psychiatry, and intellectual history. He is the author of five books: The Ruling Passion (Duke, 1995), The Burdens of Intimacy (Chicago, 1999), Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (Columbia, 2004), and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale trade, 2007), winner of the 2010 Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing (France), now out in French, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese, with a Danish translation forthcoming. His latest book, a study of Victorian agnosticism, is called The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale trade, March 2011).

Lane, formerly the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature, is also the editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (Columbia, 1998) and a coeditor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Chicago, 2001). His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New York Sun, Herald Tribune, Slate, Chronicle Review, and the New Statesman and Society. He has also published articles in journals such as Raritan, Novel, Victorian Studies, ELH, Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, Theory and Psychology, Common Knowledge, the Oxford Literary Review, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and the International Literary Quarterly.

Lane is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the British Academy, the Guggenheim Foundation, and several more. He is currently writing a book on Victorian and contemporary psychology.

He writes a blog for Psychology Today called "Side Effects." He also writes regularly for the Huffington Post.

Christopher Lane's Shyness Resources (Personal Webpage)

Publications by Christopher Lane

Age of Doubt The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Shyness Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
Winner of the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing (France, 2010)

Shyness (Japanese) Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
(Japanese translation)
"Ranzou sareru kokoro no byou" (romanized Japanese title)

Shyness (Spanish) Cómo la psiquiatría y la industria farmacéutica han convertido emociones cotidianas en enfermedad: La timidez
(Spanish translation of Shyness)

Shyness (Korean) Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
(Korean translation)

Shyness (French) Comment la psychiatrie et l'industrie pharmaceutique ont médicalisé nos émotions
(French translation of Shyness)

Hatred and Civility Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

Burdens of Intimacy The Burdens of Intimacy

The Ruling Passion The Ruling Passion

Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (co-editor)

The Psychoanalysis of Race The Psychoanalysis of Race (editor)

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January 5, 2012