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 (PhD. University of London) teaches and writes about mostly Victorian 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, with Japanese and Korean translations forthcoming. 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, and New Statesman and Society. He has also published articles in journals such as Raritan, Novel, Victorian Studies, ELH, Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, 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

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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