Daniel Adleman Author

Daniel Adleman, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Toronto. He teaches and writes primarily about the intricate interrelationships between rhetoric, psychoanalysis, media, and social change. He has recently published articles in Cultural Politics, Cultural Studies, Canadian Review of American Studies, communication +1, English Studies in Canada, and Canadian Literature. He has also published book chapters in Crossing Borders (ARP, 2020), Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). In 2012, he co-founded the Vancouver Institute for Social Research, an ongoing critical theory free school held at downtown Vancouver’s Or Gallery.

Chris Vanderwees, PhD, RP is a psychoanalyst and registered psychotherapist at St. John the Compassionate in Toronto, Canada. He is the co-editor of the essay collection (with Kristen Hennessy), Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2022), and his writing can be found in various journals including American Imago, the Canadian Journal of Communication, the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Discourse, and Psychoanalytische Perspectieven. He is an affiliate and research guest of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and a member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis.