Hélène Cixous, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hélène Cixous

French philosopher and writer

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1937

Place of Birth: Oran, Oran Province, Algeria

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, essayist, anglicist, feminist

Nationality: France, Algeria

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Hélène Cixous (; French: [siksu]; born 5 June 1937) is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.
Cixous is best known for her article "The Laugh of the Medusa", which established her as one of the early thinkers in post-structural feminism.
She founded the first centre of feminist studies at a European university at the Centre universitaire de Vincennes of the University of Paris (today's University of Paris VIII).She holds honorary degrees from Queen's University and the University of Alberta in Canada; University College Dublin in Ireland; the University of York and University College London in the UK; and Georgetown University, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the USA.
In 2008 she was appointed as A.D.
White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University until June 2014.