Noëlle McAfee is a Professor of Philosophy at Emory University with a secondary appointment as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is also Director of Emory's Psychoanalytic Studies Program; affiliated faculty in Emory's department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; co-editor of the Kettering Review; and a member of the board of officers for the feminist section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Of her six previous books, her most recent one, Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis, won the American Psychoanalytic Association's 2020 Courage to Dream Book Prize for the book that best integrates academic and clinical aspects of psychoanalysis.