Todd McGowan (PhD, English, Ohio State) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is the author of a number of books, including Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (Nebraska, 2013), Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political (Northwestern, 2012), Out of Time: The Ethics of Atemporal Cinema (Minnesota, 2011), The Impossible David Lynch (Columbia, 2007), and Capitalism and Desire (Columbia, 2016). He is also the coeditor, with Slavoj Zizek, of the Diaeresis series (Northwestern). He specializes in the relationships between critical thought and the creative process.