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Catherine Reilly

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Literature
Literature
Campus Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708
101A Friedl Building, 1316 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours : SPRING 2024 | Wednesdays 12-2 pm and by appointment.  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Analysis in Exile - "Remembering Edward Said" Webinar · January 16, 2024 - January 16, 2024 Invited Talk American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Webinar
The Brain in History: Neurocolonialism and the Anthropocene - Eco-Brain Symposium · November 22, 2023 - November 24, 2023 Invited Talk Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom
The Archive of the Real - Vice Presidential Panel ("Why Psychoanalysis?") at Annual Convention · March 16, 2023 - March 19, 2023 Invited Talk American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, IL
"The Trans of the Translator" - Annual Convention · January 3, 2023 - January 8, 2023 National Scientific Meeting Modern Language Association (MLA), Virtual Panel
Roundtable: "Russian Psychology and the Arts" - Annual Convention · November 1, 2022 - November 3, 2022 Other Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Chicago, IL
Analysis in Exile - "Remembering Edward Said" Webinar · January 16, 2024 - January 16, 2024 Invited Talk American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Webinar
The Brain in History: Neurocolonialism and the Anthropocene - Eco-Brain Symposium · November 22, 2023 - November 24, 2023 Invited Talk Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom
The Archive of the Real - Vice Presidential Panel ("Why Psychoanalysis?") at Annual Convention · March 16, 2023 - March 19, 2023 Invited Talk American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, IL
"The Trans of the Translator" - Annual Convention · January 3, 2023 - January 8, 2023 National Scientific Meeting Modern Language Association (MLA), Virtual Panel
Roundtable: "Russian Psychology and the Arts" - Annual Convention · November 1, 2022 - November 3, 2022 Other Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Chicago, IL
"Neurodiversity, Inc.: Capitalism on the Brain" - Annual Convention · June 15, 2022 - June 18, 2022 National Scientific Meeting American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Virtual Conference
"'The Tragedy of Translated Men': Negotiating Print Culture and Aesthetic Self-Determination in the Cold War" - Annual Convention · November 23, 2019 - November 26, 2019 National Scientific Meeting Assosciation for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), San Francisco, CA
"Psychoanalytic States: Sovereignty and the Worlding of Analysis" - Annual Convention · March 7, 2019 - March 10, 2019 National Scientific Meeting American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
"Case Notes from Underground: Afterlives of Psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union" - Annual Convention · January 3, 2019 - January 6, 2019 National Scientific Meeting Modern Language Assosciation (MLA), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Translation, National Liberation, Race: The Erkundungen Series in the Eastern Bloc" - Seminar: Reading Race in Cold War Cultural Internationalism · March 29, 2018 - April 1, 2018 National Scientific Meeting American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Seminar Focus: Intertwined Soviet and Eastern Bloc legacies on race, cultural solidarity and geopolitics. Presenter and Seminar Organizer.

"Remains of Red Letters: Mediating World Literature in the Eastern Bloc" - Remapping European Media Cultures During the Cold War · March 30, 2017 - April 1, 2017 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of Minnesota, Twin Cities , Minneapolis, Minnesota

Service to Duke


Academic Council (University) · 2018 - 2020 Committee Service Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Arts and Sciences Council (Alternative Rep.) (University) · 2018 - 2021 Committee Service Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Academic & Administrative Activities


I have served on multiple departmental committees in the Program in Literature, both as member and chair.