Writing

Essays and Pieces

“Reverie in Dark Times.” Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis 2025 Maurice Burke Paper Prize, CCP Member Category. Link to paper available here: https://www.ccpsa.org/paper-prize

“Climate Reverie, Climate Breakdown,” draft in process, 2025.

“Reading as a Way of Dreaming, Dreaming as a Way of Reading: A Review of Joao Sousa Montiero’s Bion’s Theory of Dreams: A Visionary Model of the Mind,” Postmodern Culture, September 2023 (2025). https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/952517.

"Climate Breakdown." ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action 6.22. https://analytic-room.com/essays/climate-breakdown-by-erin-trapp/ June 2022.

"Unconsciousness Rising: Sublimation and Environmental Loss." Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, vol. 26, issue 1. 2021. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41282-021-00209-5

"On the Edge of the Sea: Climate Breakdown and Psychoanalysis." The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, vol. 64, 2018, p. 172-194. https://utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3138/ycl-64-070

“Passus 1,” Fence 36, 2020 (poetry).

"Human Rights Poetry and the Poetics of Nonhuman Being: Dunya Mikhail's Writing of Disaster," Social Text, 36:4, p. 81-101, 2018. https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/36/4%20(137)/81/137037/Human-Rights-Poetry-and-the-Poetics-of-Nonhuman

“Redacted Tears, Aesthetics of Alterity: Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Diary,” in Terror in Global Narrative: The Aesthetics and Representation of 9/11 in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism, ed. George Fragopoulos and Lila Nayden. (Routledge, 2016).

Enough IS Enough. Grey Book Press, 2015 (poetry).

“Human Rights Poetry: On Ferida Duraković’s Heart of Darkness,” Journal of Narrative Theory 44.3, special issue: Consensual Empires, ed. Natasa Kovacević (Fall 2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/24484790

“Zehra Çirak and the Aporia of Dialogism,” Poetry and Dialogism, ed. Mara Scanlon and Chad Engbers. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“Arendt, Preference, and the Revolutionary Spectator,” Cultural Critique 86 (Winter 2014).  https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/543663/pdf

“The Enemy Combatant as Poet: the Politics of Writing in Poems from Guantanamo,” Postmodern Culture 21: 3 (May 2012). https://www.pomoculture.org/2013/06/17/the-enemy-combatant-as-poet-the-politics-of-writing-in-poems-from-guantanamo/

“Unfulfillable Wishing: Depression in the Gray Zone,” Modern Language Notes (German issue) 124 (April 2009) 708-727. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29734535