Avital Ronell Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Avital Ronell (born 15 April 1952) is a Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and a Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she co-directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project. Avital Ronell has written under the authorship and authority of the operator, literary critic, femme fatale, and philosopher. Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia. She graduated from Rutgers Preparatory School in 1970. She gained a B.A. from Middlebury College and... MORE

Avital Ronell (born 15 April 1952) is a Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and a Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she co-directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project. Avital Ronell has written under the authorship and authority of the operator, literary critic, femme fatale, and philosopher. Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia. She graduated from Rutgers Preparatory School in 1970. She gained a B.A. from Middlebury College and studied with Jacob Taubes as well as Hans-Georg Gadamer at the Hermeneutic Institute at the Free University of Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in German under the advisement of Stanley Corngold at Princeton University in 1979, alongside her close friend and philosopher Laurence Rickels, and then continued her studies with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris. At that time, she became romantically involved with Jacques Derrida's first son, Pierre Alféri. She was also a very close friend of the controversial experimental writer Kathy Acker and adopted numerous techniques for her writing through the LESS