Avital Ronell

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Avital Ronell is Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project. She is a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School, as well. A literary critic, feminist, and philosopher, Ronell is perhaps best known as the "black lady" of deconstruction.

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Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia. She studied with Jacob Taubes at the Hermeneutic Institute in Berlin, received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979, and then continued her studies with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris. She joined the comparative literature faculty at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to NYU. She has produced English translations of Derrida's work.