Writers at Work Faculty Reading: Richard Boothby and Bahar Jalali
Monday, October 17 at 6:30pm
Fourth Floor Program Room
![Richard Boothby](/_media/academics/writing/images/events/2022-2023/writers-at-work/boothby-200.jpg)
Dr. Richard Boothby is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. ¬His
educational background includes a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University, Ed.M. in
Counseling and Consulting Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education,
and Ph.D. in Philosophy, Boston University. ¬Boothby’s primary research focuses on
contemporary continental philosophy, with special attention to psychoanalysis, phenomenology,
and existentialism. His books include Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan’s
Return to Freud (Routledge, 1991),Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan
(Routledge, 2001), Sex On The Couch: What Freud Still Has To Teach Us About Sex and
Gender (Routledge, 2005), Blown Away: Refinding Life After My Son’s Suicide (Other
Press, 2022), and Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (Northwestern
University Press, 2022).
![Bahar Jalali](/_media/academics/writing/images/events/2022-2023/writers-at-work/bahargarmisch-250.jpg)
Dr. Bahar Jalali is an Afghan-American academic. Born in Afghanistan, she fled the
country as a child after the Soviet invasion. In 2009, she returned to Afghanistan
to work at the newly established American University of Afghanistan where she taught
History of Afghanistan and founded the first Gender Studies program in the history
of the country. She spent 8.5 years teaching and working towards women's empowerment
in Afghanistan. Her research interests include the history of Afghan reform movements
in the twentieth century, women and gender in the Middle East, and protecting Afghanistan’s
cultural heritage. In 2021, she launched an online protest campaign that garnered
widespread international media coverage in an effort to raise global awareness about
Afghan women’s rights and protecting the cultural heritage of Afghanistan. She has
previously taught History at Wagner College and worked for the University of Texas,
Austin. Currently, she is a Teaching Assistant Professor at Loyola University Maryland.