is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Psychoanalysis at Brunel University, where he directs the M.A. Program in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Nebr. He is the author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis (2000) and Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology (with Malcolm Quinn) (2005). He is also the editor of Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1997) and Journal for Lacanian Studies.

is a Reader in French Discourses of Sexuality at the School of Modern Languages and Philosophy Programme at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature (2003), Patrice Leconte (2004), and of numerous articles and chapters on the intersection of sexuality and death in imaginative, psychoanalytic, and scientific discourses.