Question: What key details about shoshana felman  can be extracted from the following bio?  Bio: shoshana felman is an american literary critic and current woodruff professor of comparative literature and french at emory university . she was on the faculty of yale university from 1970 to 2004 , where in 1986 she was awarded the prestigious thomas e. donnelly professorship of french and comparative literature . she specializes in 19th and 20th century french literature , psychoanalysis , trauma and testimony , and law and literature . felman earned her ph.d. at the university of grenoble in france in 1970 . felman has been influential in the fields of psychoanalytic literary criticism , performativity theory , feminism , holocaust testimony , and other areas , though her writings frequently question , ironize , or test the limits of the very critical methods being employed . often in her writing a reversal will occur so that the critical vocabulary gets subjected to and converted into the terms of the literary or cultural object being scrutinized rather than simply settling the meaning of the object ; thus in felman 's style of criticism there is no fixed hierarchy of theory over and beyond the reach of the literary object . as such , her methods share an affinity with deconstruction , for which she is sometimes associated with the yale school and colleagues such as paul de man . felman applies heterogeneous philosophical , psychological , semiotic and linguistic theories to the interpretation of literature and cultural events , and while individually rigorous her writings are not bound by any one sustained interest , method or approach . her writing is characterized by an expansive awareness , use , and engagement with contemporary theorists and critics . jacques lacan is a vital influence on felman and she was among the vanguard of theorists -- and perhaps foremost among those addressing anglophone audiences -- to rigorously apply his concepts to the study of literature . since the 1990s felman has written key texts on testimony and trauma , particularly in the context of the holocaust and other...
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- employer is emory university- known for is literary critic and theorist- awards is chevalier french government in 1982 -rrb- , american academy of arts de and sciences fellow -lrb- 2010 -rrb- . l'ordre des palmes academiques -lrb- awarded by- name is shoshana felman- website is official website- alma mater is university of grenoble -lrb- ph.d. -rrb-- occupation is professor , writer