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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, with secondary expertise in 19th-century psychology, psychiatry, and intellectual history. He is the author of four books: The Ruling Passion (1995), The Burdens of Intimacy (1999), Hatred and Civility (2004), and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (2007), now out in French, Korean, and Japanese. He is also the editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (1998) and a coeditor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (2001). His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New York Sun, Herald Tribune, Slate, and 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, and the Oxford Literary Review.

Professor Lane is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the British Academy, the Guggenheim Foundation, and others. He is completing a book on Victorian agnosticism called Failing Gods: A Century of Doubt (under contract with Yale).

He writes a blog for Psychology Today called "Side Effects."

Christopher Lane's Shyness Resources (Personal Webpage)

Publications by Christopher Lane

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

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

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

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
(French translation)
"Comment la psychiatrie et l'industrie pharmaceutique ont médicalisé nos émotions" (French title)