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Amber Jamilla Musser

Amber Jamilla Musser is an associate professor of American studies at the George Washington University. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) and Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2018). icon

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Virtual Roundtable on “The Ego and the Id”

By Elizabeth Lunbeck, Amber Jamilla Musser, & Todd McGowan

Freud’s ideas have long been absorbed by popular culture, but what role do they continue to play in the academy, in the ...

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By Sarah Brouillette, Margaux Cowden, Ayden LeRoux, Alicia Christoff, Amber Jamilla Musser, Tanya Agathocleous, & Emily Witt

On Emily Witt’s smart and sometimes menacing study of 21st-century intimacy.

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