Colin Davis is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku, Finland.

Introduction to Literary Trauma Studies

Colin Davis and Hanna Meretoja

Part 1: Sources and Inspirations

1. History of Trauma Theory




Nicole Sütterlin




2. Philosophies of Trauma




Hanna Meretoja




3. Trauma, Poststructuralism and Ethics




Colin Davis




4. Theories of Cultural Trauma




Todd Madigan




5. Trauma and Cultural Memory Studies




Rosanne Kennedy




6. Testimony




Meg Jensen




7. Trauma, Time and Address




Cathy Caruth





Part 2: Key Concepts




8. Victimhood




Susana Onega




9. Perpetrator Trauma




Erin McGlothlin




10. Witnessing




Carolyn Dean




11. Screen Memory




Max Silverman




12. Working-Through




Jean-Michel Ganteau




13. Affect




Andreea Ritivoi




14. Narrative




Jakob Lothe




15. Gender




Sharon Marquart




16. Intersectionality




Kaisa Ilmonen

Part 3: Critical Perspectives and Future Directions

17. Cosmological Trauma and Postcolonial Modernity

Sam Durrant and Ryan Topper

18. Trauma and the Implicated Subject

Michael Rothberg

19. Transcultural Empathy

Katja Garloff

20. Cognitive Approaches to Trauma and Literature

Joshua Pederson

21. Trauma, Critical Posthumanism and New Materialism

Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim

22. Trauma Studies in the Digital Age

Anna Menyhért

23. Reading Literatures of Trauma in the Age of Globalization

Kaisa Kaakinen

24. Trauma, Illness and Narrative in the Medical Humanities

Jo Winning

25. Climate Trauma

Stef Craps

Part 4: Genres and Media

26. Trauma and Fiction

Robert Eaglestone

27. Trauma and Poetry

Charles Armstrong

28. Trauma and Life Writing

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

29. Graphic Narratives as Trauma Fiction

Katalin Orban

30. Trauma and Drama/Theatre/Performance

Patrick Duggan

31. Trauma and Photography

Cécile Bishop

32. Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and the Future Anterior

Jouni Teittinen

Part 5: Places and Events

33. Trauma in Holocaust Literature

Sue Vice

34. The German Occupation of France, 1940-44

Avril Tynan

35. The Vietnam War

Mark Heberle

36. The Rwandan