Cathy Caruth

Cathy Caruth (born 1955) is a leading theorist in [https://literariness.org/2018/12/19/trauma-studies/ Trauma Studies] who teaches in the Departments of Literatures in English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Described by Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. as “one of the most innovative scholars on what we call trauma, and on our ways of perceiving and conceptualizing that still mysterious phenomenon,” she focuses on the languages of trauma and testimony, on literary theory, and on contemporary discourses concerning the annihilation and survival of languages. Provided by Wikipedia