Katie Gentile, Ph.D.

• Creation of time and space within the context of cultural, feminist and psychoanalytic theories
• The uses and impacts of participatory action research
• Sexual abuse/assault, intimate partner violence and stalking
• Eating disorders
• The roles of the nonhuman within psychoanalysis and theories of co-emergence
• The cultural and psychic production of temporalities around reproduction and fetal personhood

• Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Gender Studies Program Director, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
• Co-Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality
• Co-Editor, Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Cultures book series, Routledge

Gentile, K. (ed.) (2016). The business of being made: The temporalities of reproductive technologies, in psychoanalysis and culture. New York: Routledge.

Gentile, K. (2007). Creating bodies: Eating disorders as self-destructive survival. NY: Routledge.

Gentile, K. (2017). Collectively creating conditions for emergence. In S. Grand & J. Salzberg (eds.) Wounds of history: Transgenerational trauma.  New York: Routledge.

Gentile, K. (2017). Chasing Justice: Bystander intervention and restorative justice in the contexts of college campuses and psychoanalytic institutes.  In K. Davisson and E. Toronto, eds. A womb of her own. Section III of Division 39. Karnac Books.

Gentile, K. (2016). Notes from a (psychoanalytic) feminist field. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 21(3), 249-255. doi:10.1057/pcs.2015.63

Gentile, K.  (2015). Generating subjectivity through the creation of time. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 33 (2): 264-283.

Gentile, K. (2015). Using queer and psychoanalytic times to explore the troubling temporalities of fetal personhood. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 15: 1.
 

Gentile, K. (2015). About being in time: Response to commentaries by Carolyn Dinshaw, Bill Auerbach, and Ann Pelligrini. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 15: 1.

Gentile, K. (2014).  Exploring the troubling temporalities produced by fetal personhood. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 19 (3): 1-18.

Gentile, K. (2014). What about the baby?: Baby-philia and the neo cult of domesticity.  In M. Sheehy (ed.) Women, mothers, subjects: New explorations of the maternal. New York/London: Routledge.

Gentile, K. (2013). The business of being made: Exploring the production of temporalities in assisted reproductive technologies. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Special Issue on Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 14 (4): 255-276.

Gentile, K. (2013). You don’t recognize me because I’m still standing: Exploring the impact of participating in action research with women survivors of domestic violence. In Raghavan C. & Cohen, S.J. (Eds.), Domestic Violence: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in Dialogue, pp. 171-199. Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law, Northeastern University Press

Gentile, K. (2013). Biopolitics, trauma and the public fetus: An analysis of preconception care. Subjectivity, 6: (2): 153-172.

Gentile, K. (2013). Bearing the cultural in order to engage in a process of witnessing. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 30 (3): 456-470.

Gentile, K. (2011). What about the baby? Baby-philia and the neo cult of domesticity. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 12(1), 38-58.

Gentile, K. (2010). Is the old psychoanalytic story part of the problem? Invited response to Keylor and Apfel’s “Male infertility: Integrating an old psychoanalytic story with the research literature.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 11 (2): 78-85.

Gentile, K. (2010). Purging as embodiment. In J. Petrucelli (Ed.): Knowing, not knowing, and sort of knowing: Psychoanalysis and the experience of uncertainty. London: Karnac Press.

Raghavan, C., Rajah, V., Gentile, K., Collado, L., Kavanagh, A.M. (2009). Community violence, social support networks, ethnic group differences and male perpetration of intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24(10):  1615-1632.

Gentile, K., Raghavan, C., Rajah, V., Gates, K. (2007). It doesn’t happen here?: Eating disorders in an ethnically diverse sample of low-income, female and male, urban college students. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.15(5): 405-425.

Gentile, K. (2007). Resisting to survive or self-destructing to resist? The on-going paradox of transformation. In M. Suchet, A. Harris, & L. Aron (Eds.), Relational psychoanalysis, Volume III: New Voices. Mahwah, NJ: The Analytic Press

Gentile, K. (2006). Timing development from cleavage to differentiation, Contemporary

Psychoanalysis,42(2), 297-325.

Katie Gentile, Ph.D. is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Gender Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). She is the author of Creating bodies: Eating disorders as self-destructive survival and The Business of being made: The temporalities of reproductive technologies, in psychoanalysis and cultures, both from Routledge. She the editor of the Routledge book series Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Culture and a co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on eating disorders, sexual and racial/cultural violence, restorative and community-based justice and sexual misconduct in colleges and institutes, intimate partner violence, participatory action research, and the cultural and psychic production of temporalities around reproduction and fetal personhood.