From left: Harvard president Claudine Gay; Penn's Liz Magill; Pamela Nadell, a professor of history and Jewishstudies at American University; and Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images....
Cathy Caruth is the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and is a leading scholar on trauma whose books include Literature In the Ashes of History, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History, and Trauma: Explorations In Memory.