I teach in the Dept of Philosophy and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto (where I’m also cross-appointed to the Literature and Critical Theory program, the German Dept, and the Centre for Jewish Studies.) I’m also on the faculty of the European Graduate School..

I work mainly on art, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in the (broadly) “left-Hegelian” vein. I’m currently working on a few book projects: 1) “Deadlines (literally),” on the strange temporality of the deadline — economic-political, theological, psychoanalytic, literary, biopolitical,, etc; [preview here]; 2) “Dramaturgies of the Dialectic -Lumpen, Stretched, Senile, Stalled” (on tragedy and revolution after Hegel); and 3) “Bad Mothers” (on the myth of Niobe and itsl afterlives) [preview here].

I have two collections of essays forthcoming with Seagull Books : On Persistence ( 2026) and Material Remains: Essays On Art ( 2027)

In another mode, I’m the co-publisher of espresso books, a poetry chapbook series published in Toronto.

Interviews

• “Crossings: An Interview with Rebecca Comay,” with Dawne McCance and others, in Living On: The Mosaic Interviews, 50th-anniversary special issue of  Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal (2017): 1–23.

• “Missed Revolutions, Non-revolutions, and Revolutions to Come: A Conversation on Rebecca Comay’s Mourning Sickness,” with Joshua Nichols, PhaenEx (2012): 309–46.

I can be contacted at rebecca.comay@utoronto.ca