Prof. Cathy Caruth, professor of English literature, Cornell University in conversation with:

Dr. Sakiru Adebayo (Assistant professor of English, University of British Columbia), Dr. Thando Njovane, lecturer in the English Department, Rhodes University, Lerato Machetela, doctoral fellow, AVReQ, Dr. Adam Levin, lecturer in literature, Wits University, and Dr, Refiloe Lepere , drama practitioner and lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology.

This inaugural RoundTable in our Trauma Studies Group series was with renowned trauma scholar Cathy Caruth as our honoured guest. Each of the young scholars engaged with Professor Caruth from a different thematic focus to interrogate and expand trauma theory with a fresh lens. The discussion included “the language of trauma,” “trauma and the body,” “the art of performing trauma,” “trauma and the arts” and transgenerational trauma.