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Shoshana FelmanRobert W. Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and FrenchFrench & Comparative Literature

Education

Ph.D., University of Grenoble, France, 1970

Biography

Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French. (Ph.D., University of Grenoble, France, 1970.) 19th and 20th century French, English and American literature; literature and psychoanalysis, philosophy, trauma and testimony, law and literature; feminism, theater and performance.

Publications includeThe Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader (2007); The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century (2002), What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference (1993); Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature Psychoanalysis and History (co-authored with Dori Laub, M.D.) (1992); Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (1987); Editor, Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading-Otherwise (1982); The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (2003); Le Scandale du corps parlant.  Don Juan avec Austin, ou la Seduction en deux langues (1980); Writing and Madness: Literature/ Philosophy /Psychoanalysis (2003); La Folie et la chose litteraire (1978); La "Folie" dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Stendhal (1971)