Avital Ronell is a professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of nine books, including The Telephone Book (which won the PEN/Ralph Manheim Award in 1997), The Telephone Book 2 (the subject of a major retrospective at the Center for Contemporary Art in New York), and Introducing Derrida (co-authored with David Wood); her most recent book is Memoirs of the Future: On the Nature of Memory (with Jonathan Littell). She has also written numerous essays on contemporary German literature. Ronell's work has been translated into ten languages
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Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Interview, Ploughshares, Artforum, The Nation, Modern Painters, and many other publications. She lives in Berkeley, California.