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Cathy Caruth is the Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University, affiliated with the Departments of English and Comparative Literature within the College of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarly work bridges trauma studies, psychoanalysis, and literary theory.
- Academic Interests: Comparative Media Studies, French Literature, Literary Theory, Translation Studies, Politics and Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, Trauma Studies
Her research explores the intersections of trauma, testimony, and historical narrative, analyzing how catastrophic experience shapes language and memory. She has published extensively on Freudian theory, cross-generational trauma transmission, and the ethical dimensions of witnessing.
Recent publications focus on trauma's temporal dynamics, cross-disciplinary methodologies, and the political unconscious in historical discourse. Articles frequently engage with psychoanalytic theory, literary trauma representations, and memory studies.
