Shoshana Felman

Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University, has expertise in a variety of subjects, including 19th and 20th century French, English and American literature; literature and psychoanalysis, philosophy, trauma and testimony, law and literature; feminism, theater and performance. She has made significant contributions within and beyond the humanities, by offering offers significant, original, and compelling answers to basic questions about literature, feminism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and the law.

Felman's publications include The Future of Testimony (Routledge, 2014), (keynote contributor); and Barbara Johnson: A Life with Mary Shelley (Stanford University Press, 2014) (editor and contributor). The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reade (2007); 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); and Writing and Madness: Literature/ Philosophy /Psychoanalysis (2003).

Prior to Emory, Felman was the Thomas Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University.

She received her B.A. and M.A. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and PhD from the University of Grenoble.