Anna Fishzon, PhD, LP is a licensed psychoanalyst and advanced candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York.
For ten years she taught courses on European cultural history, Russian and Soviet history, intellectual history, psychoanalysis, literature, gender and sexuality, and critical theory at Williams College, Columbia University, and Duke University.
Anna received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in History and a B.A. from Duke University in History and Russian Literature. She is the author of Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), as well as articles on sound recording and celebrity. Her most recent articles and book chapters consider late-socialist temporality and the queerness of Brezhnev-era childhood; they have appeared in Slavic Review, Kritika, Slavic and East European Journal, and other scholarly publications. Anna is coediting The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave, forthcoming) with Emma Lieber. She is cohost of the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis, co-editor of The Candidate Journal: Psychoanalytic Currents, and member of Das Unbehagen, A Free Association for Psychoanalysis.