Avital Ronell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Avital Ronell

American philosopher

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1952

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Profession: writer, translator, university teacher, psychotherapist, journalist, literary critic, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Avital Ronell (; born 15 April 1952) is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics.
She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program.As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy, Ronell teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.
She has written about such topics as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone; the structure of the test in legal, pharmaceutical, artistic, scientific, Zen, and historical domains; stupidity; the disappearance of authority; childhood; and deficiency.
Ronell is a founding editor of the journal Qui Parle and a member of Jewish Voice for Peace.An eleven-month investigation at New York University determined that Ronell sexually harassed a graduate student, and the university suspended her without pay for the 2018–2019 academic year.