Shoshana Felman

Professor Shoshana Felman is the Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University. He is the author of ten books on literature, gender, psychoanalysis, and the Holocaust and its aftermath. He has many contributions in analyses of the relationship between textual questions, the human psyche, social and historical action both within and beyond the humanities, offers significant, original, and compelling answers to basic questions about literature, feminism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and the law. His research Interests include 19th and 20th century French, English and American literature; literature and psychoanalysis, philosophy, trauma and testimony, law and literature; feminism, theater and performance. HIs books include What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference (1993) and The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Trauma in the Twentieth Century (2002).