Stacy Thompson, Ph.D.
Contact Information
4121 Centennial Hall
105 Garfield Ave
P.O. Box 4004
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Biography
Stacy Thompson joined the English Department in 2002. He has taught and published on the following topics:
- Psychoanalysis
- Historical Materialism
- Ethics
- "Chick Flicks"
- Black US Cinema
- Rhetorics of Rap
- Punk Rock
- Microethics
- Interpassivity
- Soccer
Education
- Ph.D., Purdue University (English - Theory and Cultural Studies Program)
- M.A., Northeastern University (English)
- B.A., University of Michigan (English)
Teaching and Research Interests
- Psychoanalysis
- Film Studies
- Ethics
- Historical Materialism
Published Research
“The Interpassivity of Pickup Soccer,” Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 29.2 (March 2024): 301-311. (article)
“Death, Illusion and the Hijab in Susan Seidelman’s ‘Cut in Half’” in “ReFocus: The Films of Susan Seidelman,” Ed. Susan Santha Kerns. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023: 205-220. (book chapter)
“On the Interpassivity of Collecting," The Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 25.4 (August 2020): 652-669 (article)
“A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife” in The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature, Eds. W. Michelle Wang et al., New York: Routledge, 2020. (book chapter)
“Benjamin, Badiou, Becker: Messianic Time and the Event in Goodbye Lenin and Madison.”The Minnesota Review, Fall 2018. (article)
“The Micro-ethics of Everyday Life: Ethics, Ideology and Anti-consumerism.” Cultural Studies, 26.4 (Winter, 2012). (article)
“Ethics Not Happiness: A House is Not a Holmes.” Symploke, 19.1-2 (2012): 269-287. (article)
“The Dude and the New Left” in The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies, Eds. Edward Comentale and Aaron Jaffe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009: 124-148. (book chapter)
“Consumer Ethics in Thank You for Smoking. Film-Philosophy, 13.1 (2009): 53-67. (article)
“The Business of Death: Death and Utopia on TV.” Utopian Studies, 17.2 (December 2006): 491-514. (article)
“Tentative Utopias,” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 10.3 (December 2005): 269-285. (article)
“Punk Cinema” in Post-Punk Cinema, Ed. Nicholas Rombes, Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh Press, 2005. (essay/book chapter)
“Dogme 95” in Phillips, William. Film: An Introduction, 3/e. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005: 332-336. (late draft of a brief section)
“Crass Commodities,” Popular Music and Society, 27.3 (2004): 307-322. (article)
Punk Productions: Unfinished Business. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. (book)
“Punk Cinema,” Cinema Journal, 43. 2 (Winter 2004): 47-66. (article)
“Organizing the Cynics,” the minnesota review, 55-57 (Fall 2003): 295-302. (article)
“Punk’s Not Dead,” the minnesota review, 52-53 (Spring 2001): 299-307. (review essay)
“Market Failure: Punk Economics, Early and Late,” College Literature (Spring 2001): 48-64. (article)
“The South,” Alaska Quarterly Review (Spring and Summer 1991): 35-39. (short story)