Elisabeth Bronfen

Elisabeth Bronfen works in the area of cultural analysis. She is an emerita from the University of Zurich and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. Her areas of specialization are: Literature and visual culture, femininity and death, crossmapping as a herumeneutic process, psychoanalysis. Her publications include Night Passages. Philosophy, Literature, Film (2013), Crossmappings. On Visual Culture( 2022), and Serial Shakespeare. An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American TV Drama (paperback 2025). She is also the author of a cookbook, entitled Obessessed. The cultural Cirtic’s Life in the Kitchen (2019). Her most recent publication on serial configurations in Shakespeare appeared in the spring of 2025; Shakespeare und seine seriellen Motive.