Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English and Co-director of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also edits the award-winning blog, Psyche on Campus. His books include American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (Minnesota 2007) and Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present (Routledge 2025). He is the editor of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days (Oxford 2023); co-editor (with Brian Connolly) of Situation Critical! Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies (Duke 2024); and co-translator (with Noura Wedell and Paul Grant) of Jean Louis Schefer’s The Ordinary Man of Cinema [L’Homme ordinaire du cinema] (MIT 2016). He has also published translations of shorter works by Paul Celan, Jacques Derrida, and Safaa Fathy. His latest book, Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance, is forthcoming from Punctum.