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Elisabeth Bronfen

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Elisabeth Bronfen


Born
in München, Germany
April 23, 1958

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Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.

She did her PhD at the University of Munich, on literary space in the work of Dorothy M. Richardson’s novel Pilgrimage, as well as her habilitation, five years later, on representations of femininity and death. A specialist in the 19th and 20th century literature, she has also written articles and books in the area of gender studies, psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory and visual culture.

She is a frequent contributor for local and international news publications and broadcasts, serving as an expert on culture as well as American politics.

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“Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.”
Elisabeth Bronfen, Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

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