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Academic Profile

Academic Background: PhD, University of Grenoble; MA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Research Interests: Literary criticism, psychoanalysis, trauma theory.

Appointments: Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University.

Publications:

• Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History, Routledge, 1992.
• The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, 2002.

Additional Contributions: Founder of trauma theory in literary studies.