Department of English

​Trained as a Renaissance scholar with degrees from Columbia, Cambridge, and Yale, Professor Rudnytsky is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and graduate of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute with a part-time private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He teaches courses in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, including Shakespeare Milton, and psychoanalytic approaches to literature. He edits the History of Psychoanalysis book series for Routledge and coedits the Psychoanalytic Horizons series for Bloomsbury. His most recent books are Formulated Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm (2019), Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory (2021), and the forthcoming Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition: Augustine to Milton. Professor Rudnytsky is Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs, Chair of the Committee on Psychoanalysis and the Academy, and Chair of the Committee on Confidentiality of the American Psychoanalytic Association.