Dominick LaCapra
Bryce & Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies
Office: 340 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-4178
Fax: (607) 255-1422
E-Mail: dominick.lacapra@cornell.edu
Web site: www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dcl3
Office Hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1970
M.A. Harvard University, 1963
B.A. Cornell University, 1961
Courses
| Fall 2008: | 4740 |
Topics in Modern European Intelligence & History |
|---|---|---|
6720 |
Seminar in Modern European Intellectual History | |
| Spring 2009: | 4741 / 6730 |
Topics in Modern European Intelligence & History |
Recent Publications and Awards
Books
Writing History, Writing Trauma (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory (Cornell University Press, 2004).
History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2000).
Articles and Chapters in Books
“Approaching Limit Events: Siting Agamben” in Writing the Disaster: Essays in Representation and the Holocaust, ed. Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), 262-304.
“Holocaust Testimonies: Attending to the Victim’s Voice,” in Catastrophe and Memory: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century, The University of Chicago press, 2003), 209-31.
“Liaisons et déliaisons” in Espace? Temps. Special issue on Michel de Certeau histoire/psychooanalyse (2002), 38-54.
“Holocaust Testimonies” in Catastrophe and Meaning, ed. Moise Postone and Eric Santer (University of Chicago Press, 2002).
“Writing History, Writing Trauma” in Jonathan Monroe (ed.), Writing and Revising the Disciplines (Cornell University Press, 2001).
“Reflections on Trauma, Absence, and Loss,” in Peter Brooks and Alex Woloch (eds.), Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary culture (Yale University Press, 2000), 178-204.
“La Shoah de Lanzmann: Aqui no hay un porqué” in Espacios de critiqua y produccíon (2000), 39-65 (translation).
“Bakhtin, Marxiam and the Carnivalesque,” reprinted in part in Caryl Emerson (ed.), Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin (Twayne Publ., G.K. Hall and Co., 1999) 239-45.
“Memory, Law, and Literature: The Cases of Flaubert and Baudelaire” in Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns (eds.) History, Memory, and the Law (University of Michigan Press, 1999), 95-130.
“Trauma, Absence, Loss,” Critical Inquiry 25 (1999), 696-727.
“Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes…Well, Maybe: Response to Nicholas Royle,” Critical Inquiry 26 (1999), 154-58.
Awards
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006).
Award for Aesthetic Theory, Dactyl Foundation (2001).
Institutional Grant from the Mellon Foundation for program enhancement at the Society for the Humanities. (2001).