Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program. As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy, Ronell also teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.

15 April 1952

Born on the same birth date (15 April 1952): Brian Muir (sculptor) • Glenn Shadix • Kym Gyngell

Born on the same birth day (15 April): Aida Mollenkamp • Artur Alliksaar • Billy Yates (American football) • Carol W. Greider • Dudu Cearense • George Harrison Shull • Helene Hanff • Joseph E. Seagram • Jurriaan Schrofer • Kim Il Sung • Lou Romano • Michael Kamen • Nikolaas Tinbergen • Phil Mogg • Ryan Hamilton (ice hockey) • William Forgan Smith

Born in the same month (April 1952): Ahmet Piriştina • Brian Muir (sculptor) • Bruce Robertson (rugby union) • Cherie Lunghi • Cheryl Gillan • Dave Valentin • Dennis Hayden (actor) • Dennis Mortimer • Gary Moore • Geraldine Doogue • Gilles Valiquette • Gregg Hansford • Jacques Santini • Michel Blanc • Narayan Rane • Pierre Guité • Tania Tsanaklidou