Hannah Zeavin

these are campus requirements, unfortunately.

I'm on this search committee too-- happy to answer questions etc.

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.

I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Join us--

Announcing
The Parapraxis Film Festival
Friday, September 19 - Thursday, September 25, 2025
361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
at @lightindustry.bsky.social
Organized by Perwana Nazif and Hannah Zeavin

For program, speaker list, & ticketing information:
lightindustry.org/parapraxis

The Blockage and the Blockade — Parapraxis The editors

“The Blockage and the Blockade”:

Editors of @parapraxismag.bsky.social on resistance inside and outside the clinic — and on the need not to let psychoanalysis retreat back to the consulting room for individual treatment away from strikes, riots, uprisings www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

Join us this fall! Our 7th seminar with the Psychosocial Foundation, on the topic of Romance, is enrolling now:

For more information: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/seminars

For registration: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/store/p/the-...

Also check out @hzeavin.bsky.social 's terrific book The Distance Cure (includes discussions of ELIZA)

Culture Study Podcast A podcast about the culture that surrounds you — with Anne Helen Petersen and a bunch of very smart co-hosts culturestudypod.substack.com

This interview by @annehelen.bsky.social with @hzeavin.bsky.social will slay you if you're a modern parent pca.st/podcast/909a...

Seems like Mother Media could be the next More Work for Mother i.e. helping a whole generation rethink their childhood when they read it in college/grad school

thank you so much Bess, what a compliment --

Parapraxis Issue 06: Resistance — Parapraxis Now available for pre-order. Copies will ship in July. In 1911, Sigmund Freud addressed his followers gathered at Nuremberg, where he restated the import of his practice: “the task of psychoanalysi...

Issue 06: Resistance starts shipping this week. Order yours now.

Feeling restless. Hunger tactics. Laughing in the face of fascism. Diagnosing revolution. Madness in the Maghreb. Essays by Fady Joudah, Ussama Makdisi, Mary Turfah, Hannah Proctor, & more.

www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...

oh thank you so much--

Black and white photo of a man in a suit with his face scribbled out

THIS THURSDAY ON TGS @thisguysucked.com: the brilliant Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social gives me the lowdown on a psychiatrist who made a whole lot of regular women feel like Very Bad Moms. We also talk about our matching Freud plants.

going to my childhood hometown this week to talk about archiving childhoods & MOTHER MEDIA with Annie Baker &
Leslie Jamison at McNally Jackson. Would love to see you there:

mcnallyjackson.com/event/06052025

Hannah Zeavin Tells Us Why Psychoanalysis Is About More Than Just Daddy Issues "Freud was not that interested in the mother, really," says the founder of the psychoanalytic magazine Parapraxis, who's written a new book that interrogates the intersection of motherhood and…

"We all think of Freud as like, a mom obsessive, and that’s a false memory. There’s a lot of cultural misremembering of psychoanalysis, for better or for worse."

@hzeavin.bsky.social reflects on the history of psychoanalytic discourse and motherhood in connection with her new book, "Mother Media":

thank you!

Hand holding a copy of "Mother Media" on a white background. The cover is comprised of psychedelic lines with an image of a child in a crib watched by camera.

"[Zeavin's] book is by far the most intellectually rewarding, and it is full of fascinating forays into historical byways."
‪
@washingtonpost.com reviews "Mother Media" in a joint review alongside other new books about motherhood: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Issue 50 Content filed under the Issue 50 taxonomy.

What an issue! @hzeavin.bsky.social's RevCom diaries, @sarahlovescali.bsky.social on Ayahuasca and the soul, Tammy Kim's gorgeous essay on middle age and aging parents, the best short story you'll read this year (by Gillian Linden), and much more. Subscribe and start reading!

so looking forward--thank you so much for doing this!

Powell's social card showing stacked photos of Hannah (white woman with curly brown hair) and Lydia (white woman with straight brown hair) and the cover of Hannah's book Mother Media, and the text Powell's Books Presents Hannah Zeavin with Lydia Kiesling / Powell's City of Books/ Thursday, May 22 at 7pm

Portland!!! I'm so excited to talk with @hzeavin.bsky.social about Mother Media at @powells.bsky.social tomorrow at 7!! Come out!!!

Struggle Unity Struggle | Hannah Zeavin Young recruits make ideal pupils: their minds are curious, their bodies likely tireless (and later, strong, for armed struggle), and their pasts, by definition, brief: no one needs to worry that much ...

“Who I was becoming was the least of my concerns. We were at war.” @hzeavin.bsky.social on life as a tweenage member of the RevCom Youth Brigade: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/ess...

ALICE NOTLEY 1945 - 2025
pictured here with Anne Waldman, Rome, 1979
featured in
"Alice Notley, The Art of Poetry No. 116" @theparisreivew.bsky.social at THE PARIS REVIEW, an interview by Hannah Zeavin
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive.

buff.ly/qiSx3j8

Issue 50 Content filed under the Issue 50 taxonomy.

n+1’s 50th issue is out today! Feat. @hzeavin.bsky.social, Andrew Liu, @hamrahrama.bsky.social, @richardbeck.bsky.social, Iman Mersal, @cgvanderburg.bsky.social, Gemma Sack, @sarahlovescali.bsky.social, E. Tammy Kim, Lisa Borst, Gillian Linden, and Maureen McLane. www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...

Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.

Hannah Zeavin Tells Us Why Psychoanalysis Is About More Than Just Daddy Issues "Freud was not that interested in the mother, really," says the founder of the psychoanalytic magazine Parapraxis, who's written a new book that interrogates the intersection of motherhood and…

"We all think of Freud as like, a mom obsessive, and that’s a false memory. There’s a lot of cultural misremembering of psychoanalysis, for better or for worse."

@hzeavin.bsky.social reflects on the history of psychoanalytic discourse and motherhood in connection with her book, "Mother Media":

Every UC faculty member should be aware of this incident, especially now that we're facing changes to our faculty disciplinary processes for the second time in as many years.

these editors, these writers, this surge of psychoanalysis as a meaningful framework for understanding culture, politics, and daily life!

pre-order or subscribe today!

Our summer issue of @parapraxismag.bsky.social is now available for pre-order, with its absolutely stacked TOC. Like all little magazines right now, we're trying to survive and keep doing what we do best. A subscription or a pre-order helps us do that: