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Rob Rushing is associate professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, holds affiliate appointments with Cinema Studies and the European Union Center, and is a member of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He has a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy from U.C. Santa Cruz, a Masters in Comparative Literature from Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Italian from U.C. Berkeley. Professionally, Rushing works predominantly on 20th and 21st century literature and popular culture in Italian, English, French and Spanish; his research interests include modern Italian literature; film studies; critical theory, especially psychoanalysis; comparative literary studies; and genre. Less professionally, he maintains an active interest in science—particularly cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary theory—and music.
Rushing is the author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture (New York: Other Press, 2007). His articles and reviews have appeared in Camera Obscura, Yale French Studies, Comparative Literature, MLN, American Literary History, and American Imago, the only American academic journal founded by Freud. He is currently at work on a book on the Italian writer Italo Calvino.