Samuel McCormick
Samuel McCormick is on leave for the Fall 2025 semester.
If you have a time sensitive issue, please contact the Department Chair.
Samuel McCormick, Ph.D. is an award-winning teacher and scholar. He is the host of Lectures on Lacan, a learning community dedicated to clear, coherent, and accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is also Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University and previously served as EURIAS & Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. His first book, Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals, won the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression, the James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, and the Everett Lee Hunt Award. His second book, The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk, was published by the University of Chicago Press and recently translated into Italian.