Contact / CV

BIO

Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor whose work centers on the history of human sciences (psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry), the history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, and media theory. Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of History (Science / North America) in the Department of History and The Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley.

Zeavin’s first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is now out from MIT Press, with a Foreword by John Durham Peters and Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century (MIT Press, April 2025). She is at work on her third book, All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance (US: Penguin Press; UK: Fern Press), for which she received a 2022 Works in Progress Grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation and a 2024 Whiting Foundation Non-Fiction Grant.

In 2021, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis, a new magazine for psychoanalysis. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Psychoanalysis & History, an Editorial Associate for The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, on the editorial board of Television and New Media, and a series editor of Palgrave’s Studies in the Psychosocial.

Other academic work has appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Studies, Technology and Culture, American Imago, Media, Culture, & Society, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and elsewhere. Essays and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, Dissent, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, n+1, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.

Zeavin received her B.A. from Yale University in 2012 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU in 2018. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Indiana University in the Luddy School of Informatics and was a visiting fellow from 2020-2023 at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference.

CONTACT

Zeavin is represented by Jim Rutman at Sterling Lord Literistic in New York City and by Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander Associates in London.

CONTACT:

hannah [DOT] zeavin [at] gmail [DOT] com

for service/review requests & correspondence related to teaching and UC Berkeley: hzeavin [at] berkeley [DOT] edu; for Parapraxis related inquiries, parapraxis.mag@gmail.com