John Brenkman is Distinguished Professor in the PhD Programs of English and Comparative Literature and Chairman of the English Department at Baruch College. His publications include Culture and Domination (Cornell, 1987), Straight Male Modern: A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1993), and, most recently, The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought since September 11 (Princeton University Press, 2007).
