Education
She received her Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 1988 and is the author of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud (Johns Hopkins Uttar Pradesh, 1991), Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History (Johns Hopkins Uttar Pradesh, 1996), Literature in the Ashes of History (Johns Hopkins Uttar Pradesh, 2013) and Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience (Johns Hopkins Uttar Pradesh, forthcoming 2014).
Career
She taught previously at Yale and at Emory University, where she helped build the Department of Comparative Literature. She is also editor of Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Johns Hopkins Uttar Pradesh, 1995) and co-editor with Deborash Esch of Critical Encounters: Reference and Responsibility in Deconstructive Writing (Rutgers University Press, 1995). Robert Jay Lifton, Doctor of Medicine describes her as “one of the most innovative scholars on what we call trauma, and on our ways of perceiving and conceptualizing that still mysterious phenomenon.” Foreign a good discussion of both Caruth"s work on trauma theory see Roger Luckhurst, The Trauma Question, and Shoshana Felman, The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 2002), pp.
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