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Joan Copjec
American philosopher (born 1946)
Joan K. Copjec (born 1946) is an American philosopher, theorist, author, feminist, and prominent American Lacanianpsychoanalytic theorist.
She is Professor of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University.[1]
Early life and career
Joan K. Copjec was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1946; her family is of Czech ancestry.[2] She received her bachelor's degree in English literature, with a minor in Classics, in 1968 from Wheaton College.
She received her master's degree in English in 1969 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and began her doctoral work there, with a minor in Film in 1972. Abandoning her original Ph.D. dissertation project, she continued pursuing her film interests from 1972-1974 at the Orson Welles Film School, an operation of the Orson Welles Cinema, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1978, she received a two-year graduate diploma from the Film Unit of the Slade School of Fine Arts at Univers
