Joan Copjec
Joan Copjec is professor of Modern Culture and Media and Middle East Studies at Brown University. Copjec was co-editor of October (1981–1992); editor of the Verso book series S (1994–1999); and co-founder and executive editor of Umbr(a) (1995–2013). Her books include Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (1994), Imagine There's No Woman (2002) and Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran: Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan (2025). She lives in New York.
