Matt Lovett

Teaching Associate Professor

I have Ph.D. in Philosophy with a focus in the Continental tradition. I have further specializations in psychoanalysis and feminist and queer thought, and I am a practicing Candidate Analyst in with the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis. I have other research interests in art history and aesthetics, theories of comedy and laughter, the creation and queer spaces and dance floors, and cross-disciplinary theories of sexual difference. I have articles on Mark Rothko and Neoplatonic mysticism, Deleuze and psychoanalysis, and Lacan and trans studies. My book, Deleuze, Lacan, and the Becoming of Sexuation: A Philosophical Inquiry into Sexual Difference is now available through Routledge.

Courses I teach include Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Sex and Sexualities, Intro to LGBTQ Studies, Theories of Gender and Sexuality (graduate), and Masculinities. I also teach for the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis.

For more information, please see my attached CV.

Education & Training

PhD, Philosophy, Duquesne University
MA, Philosophy, Duquesne University
BA, Philosophy, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

Representative Publications

Publications

Books

Deleuze, Lacan, and the Becoming of Sexuation: A Philosophical Inquiry into Sexual Difference. Routledge Press.

Book Chapters

“Rothko’s Negative Theology.” The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy: From Ancient Aesthetics to 20th-Century Film. Ed. Gina Zavota. London: Bloomsbury Press. 2024. (ISBN: 9781350379114)

Journal Articles

“Lacanian Anxieties: Trans Surgeries, Countertransference, and the Fantasy of the Whole.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, 2024, pp. 458-481.

“The Sexual Genesis of Thought in Deleuze.” Penumbr(a): A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Modernity. Forthcoming, 2025.

Research Interests

Recent Presentations

Winter 2027 - “Knife ± Heart, Castration ± Love,” Castrate Me! Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2026 - “The Becoming of Sexuation,” Lacan in Scotland, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Fall 2026 - “Pathology and Diagnosis from 19th Century Sexology to Contemporary Psychoanalysis,” University of Pittsburgh
Fall 2026 - “Sex and Nomination in Lacan, Deleuze, and Leclaire,” Lacan Today, University of Ghent, Belgium
Spring 2026 - “Dreams Within Dreams in the Traumdeutung and ‘Kant Avec Sade,’ What Work Does the Dream Do?, NeMLA, Pittsburgh
Spring 2026- “What Is the Articulation of Writing Speech in Psychoanalysis?” LSP Days of Assembly, San Francisco, CA
Summer 2024 - “Criminality, Pathology, Resistance: A Short History of Pride in the United States,” Pride @ Saul, Saul Ewing Law Firm
Fall 2024& - “Unlivable Lives: The Necropolitics of Transphobia,” Second Iternational Trans Studies Conference, Chicago, IL
Fall 2024 - “Demanding the Real of Sexual Difference: On the Recent Trans Negativity of Miller and Žižek,” Lacan Today, University of Ghent, Belgium
Fall 2023 - “Keep on Dancing ‘til the World Ends: A Phenomenology and Ethic of Queer Rave Culture,” Lost in the Game: Philosophical Explorations of Power, Play, and Partying Through the Apocalypse, University of Nottingham, UK
Fall 2023 - “Sex and Truth, or: Psychoanalysis Has Always Been Queer,” Lavender Library Series, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR