Dr Andrew Asibong

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Andrew Asibong is a Film Theorist and Psychotherapist, and was Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London, where he was also co-director of the research centre Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (BRAKC). His research focuses on the radical reconfiguration of subjectivity and intersubjective modes of relationality in the contemporary arts, drawing especially on fantastical or pseudo-fantastical films and fictions, mainly psychoanalytic forms of psychotherapy, and the ethics and politics of class and stigma. He has published articles on the writers Jacques Stephen Alexis, Marie Chauvet, Marie Darrieussecq, Mohammed Dib, Hervé Guibert, and Marie NDiaye, and on the filmmakers Pedro Almodóvar, Gregg Araki, Claire Denis, Georges Franju, François Ozon and Alain Resnais. He is the author of François Ozon (2008), Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition (2013), and co-editor (with Shirley Jordan) of Marie NDiaye: l’étrangeté à l’œuvre (2009).