Cathy Caruth

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Cathy Caruth
Caruth in her office, Cornell University 2017

Cathy Caruth (born 1955) is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University and is appointed in the departments of English and Comparative Literature. She taught previously at Yale and at Emory University, where she helped build the Department of Comparative Literature. After graduating cum laude from Princeton University, she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University, where she studied the poetry of William Wordsworth alongside Geoffrey Hartman. She is the author of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), Literature in the Ashes of History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) and Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). She is also editor of Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) and co-editor with Deborah Esch of Critical Encounters: Reference and Responsibility in Deconstructive Writing (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995). Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. describes her as “one of the most innovative scholars on what we call trauma, and on our ways of perceiving and conceptualizing that still mysterious phenomenon.” For a good discussion of Caruth's highly influential work on trauma theory, see Roger Luckhurst, The Trauma Question (New York and London: Routledge, 2008), 4-5, and Shoshana Felman, The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 173–182, n.3.

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