Prof Cordova works on philosophy, literature, aesthetics, and the history of science and medicine, in early modern and 20th-century France. His interests include: continental thought and critical theory; the history of psychopathology (especially concerning melancholia and depression); psychoanalysis; ecophilosophy; posthumanism and animal studies; and media studies. He is core faculty in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program (PSP) and affiliated with the program in Human Health at Emory.