Cathy Caruth

{{Infobox academic

| name = Cathy Caruth

| birth_name = Catherine Lynne Caruth

| honorific_prefix = Professor

| title = Class of 1916 Professor of English

| image = Cathy II.jpg

| caption = Caruth in her office, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2017)

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| education = {{Unbulleted list|Princeton University (1977)|Yale University (1988)}}

| alma_mater = Yale University

| thesis_title = Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud

| thesis_year = 1989

| known_for = Unclaimed Experience (1996)

| discipline = Psychoanalytic theory

| workplaces = {{Unbulleted list|Yale University (1986-1995)|Emory University (1995-2011) |Cornell University (2011-present)}}

}}

Cathy Caruth (born 1955) is a leading theorist in Trauma Studies. She focuses on the languages of trauma and testimony, on literary theory, and on contemporary discourses concerning the annihilation and survival of language.

Education and career

Caruth graduated cum laude from Princeton University and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale. She taught at Yale, then Emory, where she developed an archive of Holocaust testimony.

She is currently Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University,{{Cite web |title=Cathy Caruth {{!}} Literatures in English |url=https://english.cornell.edu/cathy-caruth |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=english.cornell.edu}} where she holds appointments in the departments of Literatures in English and Comparative Literature.

Selected publications

{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDk2XV5y2DAC| title=Trauma: Explorations in Memory| publisher =Johns Hopkins UP| year= 1995| isbn= 978-0801-85007-3}}

{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YknmQFQt3v8C| title=Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud| publisher=Johns Hopkins UP| year=1991| isbn=978-0-801-89648-4}}Reviews of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions
{{Cite journal |last=Baker |first=John |date=1994 |title=Review of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40246937 |journal=Comparative Literature Studies |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=187–190 |issn=0010-4132}}
{{Cite journal |last=Hanley |first=Keith |date=1993 |title=Review of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3733771 |journal=The Modern Language Review |volume=88 |issue=2 |pages=408–409 |doi=10.2307/3733771 |issn=0026-7937|url-access=subscription }}

{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QcV_gOZZM-0C| title=Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History| publisher=Johns Hopkins UP| year= 1996| isbn=978-0-801-89619-4}}Reviews of Unclaimed Experience
{{Cite journal |last=Ramadanovic |first=Petar |date=1998 |editor-last=Caruth |editor-first=Cathy |title=When "To Die in Freedom" Is Written in English |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1566391 |journal=Diacritics |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=54–67 |issn=0300-7162}}
{{Cite journal |last=Sadoff |first=Dianne F. |date=1997 |title=Review of Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History; Freud and the Passions |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3200758 |journal=South Atlantic Review |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=104–108 |doi=10.2307/3200758 |issn=0277-335X|url-access=subscription }}

{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tm4nAgAAQBAJ| title=Literature in the Ashes of History| publisher =Johns Hopkins UP| year= 2013| isbn= 978-1-421-41155-2}}

{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F0djBAAAQBAJ| title=Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience| publisher =Johns Hopkins UP| year= 2014| isbn= 978-1-421-41446-1}}Review of Listening to Trauma
{{Cite journal |last=Willbern |first=David |last2=Caruth |first2=Cathy |date=2017 |title=Review of Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience, CaruthCathy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26303668 |journal=American Imago |volume=74 |issue=2 |pages=187–208 |issn=0065-860X}}

References

Category:Emory University faculty

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Category:American academics of English literature

Category:Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni

Category:Cornell University faculty

Category:20th-century American women writers

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Category:21st-century American women writers

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Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers

Category:American women academics