Douglas Aoki
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
E-mail: aoki@ualberta.ca

I work in the psychoanalysis of culture, with emphasis on body theory, the academic subject, and theory & teaching. I am in the first year of a SSHRC funded project on the implications of Lacanian social theory for teaching, which is generating a book manuscript with the working title, Psychoteaching. A recent article was published in The Harvard Educational Review, and another, The Price of Teaching: Love, Evasion and the Subordination of Knowledge, will appear in the Spring 2002 issue of JCT. A third piece, co-authored with a graduate student at Alberta, is being submitted to Teaching Sociology.

My favored means of dealing with life in the academy is the heavy-duty kickboxing dummy in my office. At the present, I am giving courses in Cortona, Italy: one on carnival & masquerade and another on identity & its displacements and reveling in the escape from the Edmonton winter.