Mary Caputi
Mary Caputi
My research interests are in the areas of feminist and critical theories, psychoanalysis, postcolonial scholarship, and American and cultural studies. In both my writing and teaching, I take an interdisciplinary approach, since such an approach best captures the richness and relevance of theory to the larger cultural context. I recently published Slow Culture and the American Dream (Lexington, 2022), which analyzes the slow movement in the context of American history and culture. I have also published Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory (Lexington, 2013), A Kinder, Gentler America: Melancholia and the Mythical 1950s (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Theory of the Obscene (Rowman and Littlefield,1994). With Amirhosein Khandizaji, I co-authored David Riesman and Critical Theory: Autonomy Instead of Emancipation (Palgrave, 2021), and with Vincent Del Casino, Jr., I co-edited Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts: Professions of Faith (Continuum, 2013). I enjoy teaching at CSULB and getting to know my students.