Richard Perkins Boothby is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland.
Boothby received his A.B. from Yale University in 1977 and his Ed.M. in 1979 from Harvard University. In 1987 he defended his PhD dissertation on "Language, Desire, and Death in Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan's Return of Freud " in Boston University.