Shoshana Felman

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Shoshana Felman is Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University. She was on the faculty of Yale University from 1970 to 2004, where she became Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative Literature.

She specializes in 19th and 20th century French literature, psychoanalysis, trauma and testimony, law and literature. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble in France in 1970.

[edit] Works

  • The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century (2002)
  • What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference (1993)
  • Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature Psychoanalysis and History (co-authored with Dori Laub, M.D.) (1992)
  • Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (1987)
  • Editor, Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading–Otherwise (1982)
  • The Literary Speech Act. Don Juan with Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (1984), reissued as The Scandal of the Speaking Body. Don Juan with Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (2002)
  • Le Scandale du corps parlant. Don Juan avec Austin, ou la Séduction en deux langues (1980)
  • Writing and Madness: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis (1985), reissued with added materials and interviews (2003)
  • La Folie et la chose littéraire (1978)
  • La "Folie" dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Stendhal (1971).
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