Todd McGowan (Ph.D., 1996, Ohio State University, English Department) is an associate professor at the University of Vermont, where he teaches film and critical theory. His areas of interest include Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersectionof these lines of thought with the cinema. Heis author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory AfterLacan and The Impossible David Lynch,among other works. His next work will deal with politics and psychoanalysis, seeking toformulate the political implications of thedeath drive.