Shoshana Felman | |
---|---|
Alma mater | University of Grenoble (Ph.D.) |
Occupation(s) | Professor, writer |
Employer | Emory University |
Known for | literary critic and theorist |
Awards | Chevalier de l'ordre des palmes academiques (awarded by French government in 1982),[1] American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow (2010).[2] |
Website | Official website |
Shoshana Felman is an American literary critic and current Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University. She was on the faculty of Yale University from 1970 to 2004, where in 1986 she was awarded the Thomas E. Donnelly Professorship of French and Comparative Literature.[3] She specializes in 19th and 20th century French literature, psychoanalysis, trauma and testimony, and law and literature. Felman earned her Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble in France in 1970.