Claire Kahane

Claire Kahane (born 1935 in New York City){{cite web|url=https://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2012.027&view=biography|title=Claire Kahane Papers: Biographical Note|work=Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online|publisher=Brown University|access-date=September 1, 2018}} is an American writer, scholar and feminist literary critic. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University at Buffalo, where she taught from 1974 to 2000.{{cite web|url=https://www.buffalo.edu/cas/english/faculty/emeritus-faculty.html|title=Emeritus Faculty|work=Department of English|publisher=University at Buffalo|access-date=September 1, 2018}} Kahane is the author of Passions of the Voice, a study of narrative and "the strategies of hysteric discourse."{{cite journal|last=DiBattista|first=Maria|journal=Modern Philology|title=Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915|pages=559–562|volume=95|date=1998|issue=4|doi=10.1086/mp.95.4.438923|jstor=438923}} Scholar Christine Wiesenthal, writing in the journal Victorian Review, wrote that "the confluence of feminist, narrative, and psychoanalytic theory" in Passions of the Voice was "an innovative and provocative mix."{{cite journal|last=Wiesenthal|first=Christine|journal=Victorian Review|title=Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the Speaking Woman by Claire Kahane|pages=212–216|volume=22|number=2|date=1996|jstor=27794847|doi=10.1353/vcr.1996.0029|s2cid=162784300}} Kahane is also the co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer, of In Dora's Case, a collection of essays from a feminist perspective criticizing Sigmund Freud's efforts to "put words into Dora's mouth."{{cite journal|last=Robinson|first=Lilian S.|journal=Signs|title=In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism|pages=609–611|volume=13|number=3|date=1988|jstor=3174190|doi=10.1086/494450}} Kahane completed her undergraduate education at the City College of New York and earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the fiction of Flannery O'Connor.