Tracy McNulty is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Cornell University and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity (Minnesota 2007) and Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (Columbia 2014). Currently she is finishing two books, Libertine Mathematics, Perversions of the Linguistic Turn and Emancipation by Relay: Freud in History.