Professor Halpern received his Ph.D. at Yale in 1983, and taughtat Yale, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University beforearriving at New York University. He is Erich Maria RemarqueProfessor of English at New York Unviersity.He is the author of four books: Norman Rockwell: The Undersideof Innocence (2006); Shakespeare’s Perfume: Sodomy andSublimity in Shakespeare, Wilde, Freud and Lacan (2002);Shakespeare among the Moderns (1997); and The Poetics ofPrimitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and theGenealogy of Capital (1991). He is currently at work on a bookabout tragedy and political economy.Professor Halpern's interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, especially drama; Shakespeare; modernism;literary theory, especially Marxist and psychoanalytic;aesthetics; science and literature.