Faculty

Claire Kahane

Professor
Office:
Phone number: 645-2575
E-mail address:  ckahane@buffalo.edu

Interests:

literature and psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on trauma studies.

Courses taught:

Modern British and American Literature, Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice, Feminist Theory and Criticism.

Work in progress:

Ian McEwan's Perverse Climax

Selected publications:

Passions of the Voice:  Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the

Speaking Woman, 1850-1915. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995).

Co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer,  In Dora's Case: Freud,Hysteria, Feminism, with an introductory essay, "Why Dora Now?"  New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1985; Second edition, 1990.