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Hlne Cixous is a professor, AlgerianFrench feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Cixous is best known for her article The Laugh of the Medusa, which established her as one of the mothers of poststructuralist feminist theory. She holds honorary degrees from Queens University and the University of Alberta in Canada University College Dublin in Ireland the University of York and University College London in the UK and Georgetown University, Northwestern University, and the University of WisconsinMadison in the USA. In 2008 she was appointed as A.D. White ProfessoratLarge at Cornell University until June 2014.

Cixous was born in Oran, French Algeria to Jewish parents. She earned her agrgation in English in 1959 and her Doctorat s lettres in 1968. Her main focus, at this time, was English literature and the works of James Joyce. In 1968, she published LExil de James Joyce ou lArt du remplacement and the following year she published her first novel, Dedans , a semiautobiographical work that won the Prix Mdicis. She is a professor at European Graduate School in SaasFee, Switzerland and the University of Paris VIII, whose center for womens studies, the first in Europe, she founded.

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