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): André Joubert • Catherine I of Russia • Charles Willson Peale • Claudius Salmasius • Godfrey Stafford • Jimmy Waite • Manzoor Elahi • Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)

Born in the same month (April 1952): Arkan • Cheryl Gillan • Esther Roth-Shahamorov • Gabrielle Gourdeau • Gerald Early • Jacques Santini • John McColl (British Army officer) • John Robertson (Glasgow MP) • Kenny Aaronson • Leicester Rutledge • Lennart Fagerlund • Narayan Rane • Reuben Gant • Simon Cowell (conservationist) • Steven Seagal • Villy Søvndal