Dr. Geoff M. Boucher is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Deakin University. He currently researches the authoritarian personality from the perspective of critical theory and is an expert on Frankfurt School critical theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis, as well as the work of Žižek and Lacan. He is the author of Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Essays on Slavoj Žižek (co-editor, 2005), The Charmed Circle of Ideology (Melbourne: Re-Press, 2008), The Times Will Suit Them: Postmodern Conservatism in Australia (with Matthew Sharpe) (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2008), Žižek and Politics: A Critical Introduction (with Matthew Sharpe) (London: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Adorno Reframed (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012), Understanding Marxism (London: Acumen, 2012), Habermas and Literature (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), and Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality (Edinburgh University Press, 2025).
In addition, he is the author of more than 40 scientific publications in literary criticism, cultural studies, and social theory, and has published numerous articles on right-wing authoritarianism. His particular interest in AI concerns the anti-democratic implications of misaligned or unregulated “grokbots.”
