Max Cavitch

Max Cavitch is the author of "American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (Minnesota, 2007) and "Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance" (Punctum, forthcoming), and he is the co-editor, with Brian Connolly, of "Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies" (Duke, forthcoming). He is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also co-directs the program in Psychoanalytic Studies and edits the blog, "Psyche on Campus."