Angela Facundo
Assistant Professor, Registered Psychotherapist
Biography
I teach a range of themes and histories in literary theory. Specifically, I arrived at queer theory and psychoanalysis through Holocaust Studies, in search of an antidote to what seems like humanity鈥檚 inescapable tendency toward fascism. My research explores the relationship between sexuality, knowledge formation and its institutionalization, and narratives of attachment. My next book project argues that the particular combination of psychoanalytic and literary thinking sustains the life of the mind in times of catastrophe. I explore what the human mind can do within volatile environments, whether the scale is internal, domestic, local, or global. In this book, I make the case for a renewal of psychoanalysis in literary studies in light of hermeneutical debates that have been unfolding since the early 2000s. To answer these questions, I focus on narratives of catastrophe in contemporary fiction and moments of friction in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Having trained at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, I am also a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice.
Research Interests
Literary and Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Fiction
Selected Publications
鈥淔ree Association and Empathy in Ishiguro鈥檚 The Buried Giant: A Case for Postcritical Psychoanalysis.鈥 Modern Fiction Studies 71.4 (December 2025): 690-714.
- Oscillations of Literary Theory: The Paranoid Imperative and Queer Reparative, SUNY Press, 2016
Additional Information
Completed clinical training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.