 She specializes in 19th and 20th century French literature, psychoanalysis, trauma and testimony, and law and literature.Felman earned her Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble in France in 1970.Felman works in the fields of psychoanalytic literary criticism, performativity theory, feminism, Holocaust testimony, and other areas, though her writings frequently question, ironize, or test the limits of the very critical methods being employed.