Dr Christopher Chamberlin

Biography

Christopher Chamberlin is a theorist of psychoanalysis and the history of slavery, with an emphasis on contemporary black cultural studies. He is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex (funded by the UKRI) and is currently in formation as a Research Analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in California. He was previously a Fellow at the ICI Berlin (Institute for Cultural Inquiry) (2020-2022) and the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of California, Berkeley (2018-2020). Chamberlin holds a Ph.D. in Culture and Theory from the University of California, Irvine with graduate emphases in Feminist and Critical Theory, and serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Qualifications

• PhD University of California, Irvine, (2018)