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Cathy Caruth

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Professor
Cathy Caruth
Caruth in her office, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2017)
Born
Catherine Lynne Caruth
Known forUnclaimed Experience (1996)
TitleClass of 1916 Professor of English
Academic background
Education
Alma materYale University
Thesis'Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud' (1989)
Academic work
DisciplinePsychoanalytic theory
Institutions

Cathy Caruth (born 1955) is a leading theorist in Trauma Studies. She focuses on the languages of trauma and testimony, on literary theory, and on contemporary discourses concerning the annihilation and survival of language.

Education and career

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Caruth graduated cum laude from Princeton University and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale. She taught at Yale, then Emory, where she developed an archive of Holocaust testimony.

She is currently Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University,[1] where she holds appointments in the departments of Literatures in English and Comparative Literature.

Selected publications

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  • Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Johns Hopkins UP. 1995. ISBN 978-0801-85007-3.

References

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  1. ^ "Cathy Caruth | Literatures in English". english.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  2. ^ Reviews of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions
  3. ^ Reviews of Unclaimed Experience
  4. ^ Review of Listening to Trauma