Authors

Elisabeth Weber

 

Elisabeth Weber is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Verfolgung und Trauma. Zu Emmanuel Levinas` Autrement qu`être ou au-delà de l`essence; the editor of Jüdisches Denken in Frankreich (1994, published in French as Questions au Judaïsme, 1996, and in English as Questioning Judaism, Stanford 2004), a collection of interviews with Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, and others; and the co-editor of Das Vergessen(e). Anamnesen des Undarstellbaren (1997), as well as the German translator of texts by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Félix Guattari. Recent publications include Speaking about Torture, co-edited with Julie Carlson (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), and “Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp“ (Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 48, Nr. 3: Special Issue Trials of Trauma: Comparative and Global Perspectives, 2011).

ARTICLES BY Elisabeth Weber