Christopher J Lane

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Christopher J. Lane (born 1966) is a British-American literary critic and intellectual historian who is currently the Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. Previously, he taught at Emory University, where he was also director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program in the Psychiatry Department. He is known for his work on 19th- and 20th-century literature and psychology, particularly its emphasis on emotion and desire.

Lane is the author of four books: The Ruling Passion (Duke Univ. Press, 1995), The Burdens of Intimacy (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999), Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (Columbia Univ. Press, 2004, 2006), and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale Univ. Press, 2007). He is also the editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (Columbia Univ. Press, 1998) and a coeditor, with Tim Dean, of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal Online, International Herald Tribune, and New Statesman and Society, and published articles in journals such as Raritan, Novel, Victorian Studies, ELH, Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, Common Knowledge, and the Oxford Literary Review.

Lane received his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1992, having earned an M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex (1991) and a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of East Anglia (1988).