Transferential Moments: an Interview with Adam Frank

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Adam Frank is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (Fordham University Press, 2015), co-author (with Elizabeth Wilson) of A Silvan Tomkins Handbook (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), and co-editor (with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) of Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader (Duke University Press, 1995). His essays have appeared in ELH, Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Science in Context, and elsewhere. He recently completed a sabbatical year fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (2018-2019) where he pursued the Radio Free Stein critical sound project (www.radiofreestein.com).