About

Miguel Rivera is a literature PhD candidate at Tufts University. His research interests include Caribbean literature, 20-21st century American literature, Lacanian psychoanalysis, critical race theory, detective fiction, and other genre fiction. His dissertation addresses the Lacanian sinthome read through Black literature in the Americas.

Miguel’s work appeared in the 2017 issue of Word and Text. His essay is entitled,  “‘[D]ifferent even from our “own” differences’: Racial Signification and the Legacy of Lacanian Sexuation”.

Most recently, Miguel published an essay entitled, “‘A Critique of Countertransference’: Commentary on Session XIII” in Palgrave’s Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII.

Miguel will appear in another Palgrave volume, Lacan and the Environment, forthcoming in 2021. His essay is entitled, “‘Some people like…’: Misapprehension and Effacement of Jouissance in Climate Hostile Advertising.”