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Cathy Caruth holds the dual position of Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, where her work centers on trauma theory, literary representation, and the limits of language in catastrophic historical contexts.
Her research explores how traumatic experiences challenge linguistic and narrative structures, examining testimony as both philosophical problem and historical necessity. Caruth investigates the survival of language amid annihilation, bridging literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and historical studies to analyze how literature bears witness to unspeakable events through innovative narrative forms.
Her recent publications reveal consistent engagement with trauma's epistemological dimensions: Literature in the Ashes of History (2013) interrogates literature's capacity to represent historical catastrophe, while Listening to Trauma (2014) documents therapeutic conversations about catastrophic experience, demonstrating her interdisciplinary methodology across literary theory, clinical psychology, and memory studies.
