Professor Vivian Heller

Vivian Heller​ received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Modern Studies from Yale University. She is the author of ​Joyce, Decadence, and Emancipation (University of Illinois Press) which won the Choice Book Award, and The City Beneath Us: Building the New York Subway​. Her essays have appeared in ​New Observations,​ the ​Journal of Literature and Medicine,​ and ​The Georgetown Review​; her short fiction has been published in Confrontation,​ ​Bomb, and Fence​. She works at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University.

Vivian is author of Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss and the Lessons of Anna Freud (Confer Books, 2022).