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Cathy Caruth
Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters
247 Goldwin Smith Hall
cc694@cornell.edu
607-255-9308
Overview
Cathy Caruth teaches in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature. She focuses on the languages of trauma and testimony, on literary theory, and on contemporary discourses concerning the annihilation and survival of language. Her most recent books are Literature in the Ashes of History (Hopkins, 2013) and Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience (Interviews and Photography by Cathy Caruth) (Hopkins, 2014).
Departments/Programs
- Comparative Literature
- English
Graduate Fields
- Comparative Literature
- English Language and Literature
Research
- Milton and Romantics
- Literary theory
- Literature and theory of trauma