Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and World Literature: Metamorphoses and a Literary Arts Praxis - Paperback

by Suzanne LaLonde (Author)

This book is targeted for clinicians, scientists, cultural theorists, and other scholars and students of trauma studies interested in cultivating interdisciplinary understandings of trauma and posttraumatic conditions, especially resistance, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.

Author Biography

Suzanne LaLonde holds a Ph.D. in French Language and Literature and has served as an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and serves currently as a Humanities Instructor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. Her areas of research have centered on French and Francophone Literature, World Literature, Trauma Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Ecocriticism. In her book Paris and Its Revolutionary Ideas (2020), she invites readers to reconsider the concept of revolutions, which take place in minds and hearts, through an exposure to the arts populating the Parisian landscape. Her teaching record and interests center on French Culture, European Art History, Humanities Driven STEM courses, and Medical Humanities classses, including "Narratives of Illness and Reflective Writing" and "World Literature and Global Health".