Max Cavitch

Max Cavitch is an English scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is an associate professor and co-directs psychoanalytic studies. He also edits the blog Psyche on Campus. He is the author of American Elegy (2007) and Psychoanalysis and the University (Routledge, 2025). His translations include works by Paul Celan, Jacques Derrida, and Safaa Fathy. His forthcoming book, Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance, is due from Punctum.