Cathy Caruth

Professor Cathy Caruth
Caruth in her office, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2017)
Born	Catherine Lynne Caruth
Known for	Unclaimed Experience (1996)
Title	Class of 1916 Professor of English
Academic background
Education	Princeton University (1977) Yale University (1988)
Alma mater	Yale University
Thesis	'Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud' (1989)
Academic work
Discipline	Psychoanalytic theory
Institutions	Yale University (1986-1995) Emory University (1995-2011) Cornell University (2011-present)

Cathy Caruth (born 1955) is a leading theorist in Trauma Studies. She focuses on the languages of trauma and testimony, on literary theory, and on contemporary discourses concerning the annihilation and survival of language.