Cathy Caruth Explained

Cathy Caruth
Birth Name:	Catherine Lynne Caruth
Honorific Prefix:	Professor
Class of 1916 Professor of English
Alma Mater:	Yale University
Thesis Title:	Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud
Thesis Year:	1989
Known For:	Unclaimed Experience (1996)
Discipline:	Psychoanalytic theory

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.

Education and career

Caruth graduated cum laude from Princeton University and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale. She taught at Yale, then Emory, where she developed an archive of Holocaust testimony.

She is currently Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University,^[1] where she holds appointments in the departments of Literatures in English and Comparative Literature.

Selected publications

• Book: Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Johns Hopkins UP. 1995. 978-0801-85007-3.
• Book: Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud. Johns Hopkins UP. 1991. 978-0-801-89648-4. ^[2]
• Book: Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History. Johns Hopkins UP. 1996. 978-0-801-89619-4. ^[3]
• Book: Literature in the Ashes of History. Johns Hopkins UP. 2013. 978-1-421-41155-2.
• Book: Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience. Johns Hopkins UP. 2014. 978-1-421-41446-1. ^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cathy Caruth Literatures in English . 2024-06-19 . english.cornell.edu.
2. Reviews of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions
   • Baker . John . 1994 . Review of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud . Comparative Literature Studies . 31 . 2 . 187–190 . 0010-4132.
   • Hanley . Keith . 1993 . Review of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud . The Modern Language Review . 88 . 2 . 408–409 . 10.2307/3733771 . 0026-7937.
3. Reviews of Unclaimed Experience
   • Ramadanovic . Petar . 1998 . Caruth . Cathy . When "To Die in Freedom" Is Written in English . Diacritics . 28 . 4 . 54–67 . 0300-7162.
   • Sadoff . Dianne F. . 1997 . Review of Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History; Freud and the Passions . South Atlantic Review . 62 . 4 . 104–108 . 10.2307/3200758 . 0277-335X.
4. Review of Listening to Trauma
   • Willbern . David . Caruth . Cathy . 2017 . Review of Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience, CaruthCathy . American Imago . 74 . 2 . 187–208 . 0065-860X.