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, and has also written as a literary critic, a feminist, and philosopher.
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[edit] Career
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 at the Free University of Berlin, received her Ph.D. under the advisement of Stanley Corngold at 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.[1]
[edit] Works
- (2005) The Test Drive, (ISBN 0-252-02950-X)
- (2001) Stupidity, (ISBN 0-252-07127-1)
- (1998) Finitude's Score, (ISBN 0-8032-8949-9)
- (1993) Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania, (ISBN 0-252-07190-5)
- (1993) Dictations: On Haunted Writing, (ISBN 0-8032-8945-6)
- (1989) Telephone Book, (ISBN 0-8032-8938-3)
- (1989) The Ear of the Other, (ISBN 0-8032-6575-1) trans., Jacques Derrida
