Christopher J. Lane (born 1966) is a British-American literary critic and intellectual historian who is currently the Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. Previously, he taught at Emory University, where he was also director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program in the Psychiatry Department. He is known for his work on 19th- and 20th-century literature and psychology, particularly its emphasis on emotion and desire.

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  • Christopher J. Lane (born 1966) is a British-American literary critic and intellectual historian who is currently the Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. Previously, he taught at Emory University, where he was also director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program in the Psychiatry Department. He is known for his work on 19th- and 20th-century literature and psychology, particularly its emphasis on emotion and desire. A Victorianist by training, Lane has secondary expertise in 19th-century psychology, psychiatry, and intellectual history. Lane is the author of four books: The Ruling Passion (Duke Univ. Press, 1995), The Burdens of Intimacy (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999), Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (Columbia Univ. Press, 2004, 2006), and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale Univ. Press, 2007). He is also the editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (Columbia Univ. Press, 1998) and a coeditor, with Tim Dean, of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal Online, International Herald Tribune, and New Statesman and Society, and published more than fifty peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Raritan, Novel, Victorian Studies, ELH, Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, Common Knowledge, Oxford Literary Review, and the International Literary Quarterly. Lane graduated with a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of East Anglia (1988), and subsequently earned an M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex (1991) and his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1992. His book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness critiques the broadness of the concept of social phobia as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. He also a criticized the definitions of other mental disorders in an article in Los Angeles Times, which covered the controversies surrounding the drafting of the DSM-V.
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  • Christopher J. Lane (born 1966) is a British-American literary critic and intellectual historian who is currently the Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. Previously, he taught at Emory University, where he was also director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program in the Psychiatry Department. He is known for his work on 19th- and 20th-century literature and psychology, particularly its emphasis on emotion and desire.
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