Miguel Rivera received his PhD in literature from 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, entitled Thought Crimes: Jouissance and Activism in 20th Century Black American Literature addresses the Lacanian sinthome read through Black literature in the Americas.
Miguel’s peer-reviewed work has appeared in the journals Word and Text and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. He has also published in two volumes as part of the Palgrave Lacan Collection, Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII (2020) and Lacan and the Environment (2021).
Every week, Miguel publishes an edition of the Paradox Newsletter, a weekly academically inflected cultural studies publication for a general audience. Frequent topics include film criticism, counterculture, and Lacanian theory.