Claire Kahane is Professor Emerita of English at the University at Buffalo and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. She has written widely on feminist theory and criticism, psychoanalysis as a method of literary interpretation, and 19th and 20th century British and American fiction. Born in New York City, she received her B.A. at CCNY, and her M.A. and Ph.D at the University of California at Berkeley. She has coedited several anthologies of feminist-psychoanalytic essays, among them The M/Other Tongue (Cornell Univ. Press) and In Dora's Case (Columbia Univ. Press), and is the author of Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995). Her most recent project is a study of Holocaust representations and trauma theory.

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