Mari Ruti

Mari Ruti (PhD, Harvard University) is Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of thirteen books: Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life(2006); A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living(2009); The Summons of Love(2011); The Case for Falling in Love(2011); The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within(2012); The Call of Character(2013); Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics(Bloomsbury, 2015); The Age of Scientific Sexism(Bloomsbury, 2015); Feminist Film Theory andPretty Woman (Bloomsbury, 2016); The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects(2017); Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life(2018); Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect(Bloomsbury, 2018); and Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue- with Amy Allen (Bloomsbury, 2019).