Chris Lane is Professor of English at Northwestern University. He teaches and writes about mostly Victorian modern British fiction. His related books include The Ruling Passion (1995), The Burdens of Intimacy (1999), Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (2004), and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (2007). He is editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (2001), and co-editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (2001) and James Purdy: Selected Plays (2007).

Chris has been awarded fellowships by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the British Academy, the Emory University Research Council, the Centre for Twentieth Century Studies, the Alice B. Kaplan Humanities Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

He is published in several journals, and is on the boards of Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, Literature and Psychology, Discourse, The Journal for Lacanian Studies, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, The James Purdy Society, and the MLA’s division on Psychological Approaches to Literature.