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Andrew Asibong
Andrew Asibong is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is also Co-director of Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (BRAKC). His research focuses on the reconfiguration of subjectivity and modes of relationality in the contemporary arts, drawing especially on fantastical or pseudo-fantastical films and fictions, psychoanalytic forms of psychotherapy, and the ethics and politics of class, ‘race’, gender 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 film-makers Pedro Almodóvar, Gregg Araki, Jean Cocteau, Claire Denis, Arnaud Desplechin, Georges Franju, François Ozon and Alain Resnais. He is the author of François Ozon (Manchester University Press, 2008) and Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition (Liverpool University Press, 2013), and is Co-editor (with Shirley Jordan) of Marie NDiaye: l'œétrangeté à l’éuvre (Septentrion, 2009).