Over 40 essays from top thinkers in the field demonstrate the range and vitality of trauma studies as it has been used to further the understanding of literature and other cultural forms across the world.

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 Genocide

Josias Semujanga

37. 9/11

Lucy Bond

38. The Iraq War

Patrick Deer

39. Katrina

Eric Doise

40. Transgenerational Nuclear Trauma

Gabrielle Schwab