Ramsey McGlazer, Ph.D.

Ramsey McGlazer is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020), which won the American Association for Italian Studies First Book Prize in 2021. He studies European and Latin American literature, film, and critical theory and is working on a book about aesthetics, abolition, and antipsychiatry in Italy and Brazil. A related essay on the work of the Italian psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli recently appeared in n+1 online.