Paige Sweet

Paige Sweet has a PhD in Comparative Literature and was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Her articles on literature and art are laced with queer, feminist, psychoanalytic, and racial theories and have appeared in The New Inquiry, Parallax, ARIEL, and other journals. She is faculty at the Bard Prison Initiative and co-founder of Autotheory as Practice, where she teaches creative-critical writing courses and workshops and offers consultation on writing projects. She’s a practicing psychoanalyst and Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Initiative at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.