Kaja Silverman

Kaja Silverman is an American film theorist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, and the University of Rochester before joining the Rhetoric Department and the Film Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

Her writing and teaching are focused at the moment primarily on phenomenology, psychoanalysis. photography, and time-based visual art, but she continues to write about and teach courses on cinema, and she has a developing interest in painting. She is currently writing a book about photography, called The Miracle of Analogy, and her long-in-the-making book, Flesh of My Flesh, will be published by Stanford University Press in fall 2009.

Silverman is the author of numerous articles, and the following eight books:

• The Subject of Semiotics (Oxford University Press, 1983)
• The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Indiana University Press, 1988)
• Male Subjectivity at the Margins (Routledge Press, 1992)
• The Threshold of the Visible World (Routledge Press, 1996)
• Speaking About Godard (New York University Press, 1998; with Harun Farocki)
• World Spectators (Stanford University Press, 2000)
• James Coleman (Munich: Hatje Cantz, 2002; ed. Susanne Gaensheimer)
• Flesh of My Flesh (Forthcoming, 2009)

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