Todd McGowan (born 1967) is an American professor of English at the University of Vermont where he teaches film and cultural theory. He works on Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema. McGowan is the author of more than 15 books, editor of ''Film Theory in Practice'' series from Bloomsbury and co-editor of the ''Diaeresis'' series at Northwestern University Press with Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston. McGowan's work has been described as "A Politics of Death Drive". McGowan cohosts the podcast ''Why Theory'' with Ryan Engley.
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