Dominick la capra biography

American historian

Dominick LaCapra (born 1939) is an American-born historian of European intellectual history, best known for his work in intellectual history and trauma studies.

He served as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, where he is now a professor emeritus.

Early life and education

LaCapra received his B.A. from Cornell and his Ph.D.

Dominick la capra biography

from Harvard. He began teaching at the Cornell University Department of History in 1969.^[1]

Career

LaCapra's work has helped to transform intellectual history and its relations to cultural history as well as other approaches to the past.

His goal has been to explore and expand the nature and limits of theoretically informed historical understanding.^[2] His work integrates recent developments in critical theory, such as post-structuralism and psychoanalysis, and examines their relevance for the rethinking of history.^[3] It also explores