Elisabeth Bronfen PhD

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 has her PhD at the University of Munich, on the 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, psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory, and visual culture.