Kordela's interdisciplinary approach to German and cultural studies is based on
her expertise in intellectual history, philosophy, critical theory, Lacanian
psychoanalysis, economic and political theory, theories of ideology, film analysis and
visual theory and literature and literary theory. One distinguishing aspect of both her
research and teaching is her focus on the relation between economic structures and
metaphysics in secular capitalist modernity. 

EDUCATION: B.A., University of Athens, Greece M.A., University of Pittsburgh Ph.D.,
Cornell University 

Kordela has been teaching at Macalester since 1998.

Articles

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Bioracism, or, Spiritual Evolutionism, Macalester International (2011)
 

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Four Fundamental Myths of Postmodern Thought, Cultural Critique (2010)
 

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Even Less: Antinomies and Aesthetic Anorexia in 69 Love Sons (An Album for Boys and Girls), Radical Musicology (2010)
 

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Desire Trauma on Credit: Lacan, Antigone, and Democracy, Monolk (2009)
 

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Genre With and Beyond Gender and Sex (a Psychoanalytic Intervention), Re-Coupling Gender and Genre (2008)
 

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Books

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Freedom and confinement in modernity: Kafka's cages (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) (2011)
 

Contributions to Books

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A thought beyond dualisms, creationist and evolutionist alike, Spinoza Now (2011)
 

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Kafkaesque: (Secular) Kabbalah and Allegory, Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages (2011)
 

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Psychoanalysis, Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts (2011)
 

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The Democratic Father: Credit and Crime in Metaphor, Literary Friendship —Literary Paternity: Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold (2002)