Max Cavitch, an associate professor of English and co-director of the psychoanalytic studies program in the School of Arts & Sciences, has been named an International Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. He has also received the Dora Maar House Residential Fellowship in Ménerbes, France, and has been named a Jennifer Egan Creative Approaches to Mental Health Residential Fellow at the Mesa Refuge in northern California.

Dr. Cavitch joined Penn’s faculty in 1999, after receiving his BA from Yale and his PhD from Rutgers. He teaches courses on many forms and phases of American and Anglophone literature of the modern period. His teaching and research interests also include animal studies, cinema and media studies, comparative literature, poetry and poetics, gender and sexuality studies, and psychoanalytic studies.