Cathy Caruth

About

Cathy Caruth is a Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University, teaching in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature. Her academic interests include literary theory, the languages of trauma and testimony, and contemporary discourses concerning the annihilation and survival of language. She has authored books such as Literature in the Ashes of History (2013) and Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience (2014). Her research focuses on Milton and the Romantics, literary theory, and the literature and theory of trauma.

Research topics

• Political Science
• History
• Law
• Literature
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology
• Art
• Ancient history
• Archaeology

Selected publications

• Unclaimed Experience

  Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 2016-01-01 · 274 citations

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• Literature in the Ashes of History

  Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 2013-01-01 · 132 citations

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• Listening to trauma : conversations with leaders in the theory and treatment of catastrophic experience

  2014-01-01 · 73 citations

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  This new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession, Caruth's subjects include literary theorists and critics, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, political activists, filmmakers, public intellectuals, institutional leaders, and researchers. Exploring the intertwining of the intellectual and…

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• Listening to Trauma

  Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 2014-01-01 · 55 citations

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• "Who Speaks from the Site Of Trauma?": An Interview with Cathy Caruth

  diacritics · 2019-01-01 · 11 citations

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  In celebration of the 20th-anniversary edition of <i>Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History</i>, we conducted an interview with Cathy Caruth at her home on April 20, 2018. The interview covered, among other things, Caruth's response to her critics around the contested notion of "unrepresentability," her take on the crucial relation between theory and testimony, as well as her recent rethinking of address around its failure and new possibility on the site of trauma.

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Frequent coauthors

• Dominick LaCapra

  10 shared

• Shoshana Felman

  Emory University

  10 shared

• Jonathan Culler

  9 shared

• Benedetto Bordone

  Ibero American University

  9 shared

• Arleen Ionescu

  9 shared

• Lawrence L. Langer

  9 shared

• Éric L. Santner

  9 shared

• Robert Lowell

  Fayoum University

  4 shared

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