Elissa Marder is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University where she is also affiliated with the Departments of Philosophy and Women’s Studies. She is a founding member of the Emory Psychoanalytic Studies Program and served as its Director from 2001-2006. She has been named an International Fellow at the London Graduate School and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fe, Switzerland.
Her publications include: Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) (Stanford University Press, 2001); The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, and Deconstruction (Fordham University Press, 2012); Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History) . Eds. E.S. Burt, Elissa Marder, Kevin Newmark. Yale French Studies vol. 125 (forthcoming: Spring, 2014). 
She has also published essays on diverse topics in literature, psychoanalysis, literary theory, feminism, film, photography and philosophy.

Herman Westerink is associate professor for philosophy of religion and intercultural philosophy and senior researcher at the Titus Brandsma Institute at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and extraordinary professor for psychoanalysis and mysticism at the KU Leuven. He is the vice-chair of the Scientific Board of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna. He has written many books and articles on Freudian psychoanalysis, sexuality and religion. Most recently he published (with Philippe Van Haute) commentaries on and text editions of the first edition of Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and a monograph on Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. He is editor of the book series “Sigmund Freuds Werke: Wiener Interdisziplinäre Kommentare”.

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York; founding member, Unbehagen; faculty, Eugene Lang College at The New School; Supervisor, City University of New York doctoral program in clinical psychology. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation (Karnac, 2011) and, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon, 2013)

Jelica Šumič Riha  is a Slovenian philosopher, political theorist, and translator, associated with the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis.

Laurie Laufer est psychanalyste, professeure de psychopathologie à l’Université Paris Diderot, directrice du laboratoire CRPMS (Centre de recherche psychanalyse, médecine et société). Elle est l’auteur de L’Énigme du deuil, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2006, des préfaces au roman de Pierre Louÿs, Trois filles de leur mère (1926), Paris, Payot, 2013, pp.7-38 aux ouvrages de Sigmund Freud, Malaise dans la civilisation (1929), Paris, Payot, 2010, pp. 7-35 et Deuil et Mélancolie (1915), Paris, Payot, 2011, pp. 7-37. Elle a publié de nombreux articles sur l’image et la psychanalyse et sur les questions de genre, de biopolitique et de psychanalyse.

Léa Silveira – Brasil – leasilveiralea@gmail.com – Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA, Minas Gerais, Brazil), working mainly in the Philosophy Undergraduate Degree and in the Philosophy Graduate Program. In both cases she teaches courses on “Philosophy and Psychoanalysis”. Her doctorate thesis is titled “Determination versus subjectivity: Appropriation and surpassing of structuralism in Lacanian psychoanalysis” and was developed at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar, São Paulo, Brazil). She is a founding member of the Working group on Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of the National Association of Graduate Studies in Philosophy (Anpof). Articles in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish are available at: https://ufla.academia.edu/L%C3%A9aSilveira

Marcus Coelen is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and Berlin. He also teaches literature and literary theory currently holding an appointment in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Columbia University. He has translated into German and edited several volumes of texts by the French novelist and theoretician Maurice Blanchot and published on Marcel Proust, Charles Baudelaire as well as other literary figures.  Other publications include: With Mark Hewson, Georges Bataille – Key Concepts, London, Routledge, 2016; forthcoming [2020] is, with Jamieson Webster, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan.

Nelson da Silva Junior is a psychoanalyst, PhD in Fundamental Psychopathology from the University of Paris VII, Full Professor at the Department of Social and Work Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo. Member of the Department of Psychoanalysis of the Instituto Sedes Sapientiae and the University Association for Research in Fundamental Psychopathology. Coordinator of Latesfip, together with Christian Dunker and Vladimir Safatle. Author, among others, of the books Le fictionnel en psychanalyse. Une étude à partir de l’œuvre de Fernando Pessoa, Presses Universitaires du Septemprion (2000), Linguagens e pensamento. A lógica na razão e desrazão, Casa do Psicólogo (2007), A Psicologia Social e a Questão do Hífen. Silva Junior & Zangari, (orgs.) Blucher, (2017) Patologias do Social, Dunker, Silva Junior e Safatle (orgs.), Autêntica (2018) e Fernando Pesssoa e Freud: diálogos inquietantes, Blucher (2019).

Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS), Honorary Member at IPTAR the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City, and Member at Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association New York. ​Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press: 2003) winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize, and Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010). She has published two edited collections (both with Manya Steinkoler) Lacan On Madness: Madness, Yes You Can’t ( Routledge: 2015) and Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016). Her new book Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference is forthcoming by Routledge in June 2017.

Paulo Beer – Brasil – beerpaulo@gmail.com – Psychoanalyst and PhD in Social Psychology by Psychology Institute of the University of São Paulo, with a research internship at the Birbeck College of the University of London. Member of the Laboratory for Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (LATESFIP-USP). Works upon psychoanalysis, epistemology and politics. Published “Psicanálise e ciência: um debate necessário” (Ed. Blucher, 2017) and is editor of “Lacuna: uma revista de psicanálise”.

Tania Espinoza – PhD, MPhil University of Cambridge (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages), BA (hons) Macalester College. Her thesis The Ethics of Negative Space examines the relationship between theory and practice through the model of the multistable figure in Kant, Lacan and Virginia Woolf. She teaches comparative literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at ECLA of Bard in Berlin.

Vladimir Safatle – Professor at the University of São Paulo, invited professor at the Universities of Paris VII, Paris VIII, Toulouse, and Louvain, ancien lecturer at the Collège International de Philosophie – Paris, coordinator of the brazilian translations of the complete works of Adorno.
Publications: the Passion of the negative: Lacan and philosophy (Georg Olms, 2010), Grand Hotel Abismo: por uma da Reconstrução teoria do reconhecimento (Martins Fontes, 2012), A esquerda that seu nome não teme dizer (Três estrelas, 2012) , Fetichismo: colonize o Outro (Civilização brasileira, 2010) cinismo e da falência crítica (Boitempo 2008), Lacan: uma Introdução (Publifolha, 2007)