Avital Ronell
Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program. As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy, Ronell also teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.
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- Born in
- Prague
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityRutgers Preparatory School
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Stanley Corngold
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1952
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