Aranye Fradenburg is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of the English Department’s specialization in “Literature and the Mind,” and Clinical Associate of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, with a private practice in Goleta, CA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and taught at Dartmouth before moving to UCSB. Her particular interests are Medieval English and Scottish literary culture, and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of City, Marriage Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland, Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer, and many articles on the relationship between contemporary thought and Medieval Studies.
Clinical homepage: http://www.aranyefradenburg.com |
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Areas of Interest |
- Literature and the Mind
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Medieval Culture, English and Scottish
- Gender and Sexuality
- The Humanities in the Public Sphere
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Books and Recent Articles |
- Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer (University of Minnesota Press, 2002.)
- City, Marriage, Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991)
- Editor (with Carla Freccero), Premodern Sexualities (Routledge, 1996)
- Editor, Women of Sovereignty (University of Edinburgh Press, 1992)
- Mama's Boys, forthcoming in Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, ed. Madhavi Menon (Duke, 2010)
- Dreaming in the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Freud, in The Posthistorical Middle Ages, eds. Scala and Federico (Palgrave, 2008).
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Current Projects |
- English Department Specialization in Literature and the Mind
- "Beauty and Boredom in 'The Legend of Good Women'", (forthcoming in Exemplaria)
- Embodiment and Anxiety
- SAVING UCSB (IT USED TO BE FREE)
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Recent Course Offerings |
- Anxiety
- Creativity and the Imagination
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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| Quarter |
Course |
Title |
| Summer (A) 2010 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 152B |
Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and the Minor Poems |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 230 |
Studies in Medieval Literature |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 101 |
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 101S |
Seminar for English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 |
| Summer (A) 2009 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Spring 2009 |
COMPLIT 119 |
Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Spring 2009 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: On Anxiety |
| Fall 2008 |
ENGL 101 |
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 |
| Fall 2008 |
ENGL 101S |
Seminar for English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
: Honors seminar |
| Spring 2008 |
ENGL 230 |
Studies in Medieval Literature
: Ricardian Culture |
| Winter 2008 |
COMPLIT 119 |
Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Winter 2008 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Psychological Theories of Creativity, Invention, and Imaginative Process |
| Fall 2007 |
ENGL 101 |
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 |
| Fall 2007 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Winter 2007 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Legends of Troy |
| Winter 2007 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Fall 2006 |
ENGL 101 |
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 |
| Fall 2006 |
ENGL 101S |
Seminar for English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 |
| Spring 2006 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Winter 2006 |
ENGL 115 |
Medieval Literature |
| Winter 2006 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar |
| Winter 2006 |
ENGL 230 |
Studies in Medieval Literature |
| Spring 2005 |
ENGL 115 |
Medieval Literature |
| Winter 2005 |
COMPLIT 119 |
Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Winter 2005 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: The Humanities and the Public Sphere |
| Fall 2004 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Fall 2004 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory |
| Spring 2004 |
COMPLIT 119 |
Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
: Chaucer in St. English |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 152AS |
Seminar for Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 230 |
Studies in Medieval Literature
: Chaucer's Courtly Poetry |
| Spring 2003 |
ENGL 115 |
Medieval Literature |
| Spring 2003 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: The Humanities and the Public Sphere |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Fall 2002 |
COMPLIT 119 |
Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Fall 2002 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Theorizing the Humanities |
| Spring 2002 |
ENGL 112 |
Practical Criticism |
| Spring 2002 |
COMPLIT 119 |
Psychoanalytic Theory
: Psychoanalysis |
| Winter 2002 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Fall 2001 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Public Humanitas |
| Fall 2001 |
ENGL 230 |
Studies in Medieval Literature
: Medieval Romance |
| Summer (A) 2001 |
ENGL 112 |
Practical Criticism |
| Spring 2001 |
COMPLIT 119 |
Psychoanalytic Theory
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| Winter 2001 |
WMST 181 |
Key Issues in Feminist Theory
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| Fall 2000 |
ENGL 152A |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| Fall 2000 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Writing the Middle Ages |
