Elaine Scarry

professor, English, Harvard University

Elaine Scarry, a professor of English and American Literature and Language, is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her interests include Theory of Representation, the Language of Physical Pain and Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science and the Law. She is the author of* The Body in Pain* which is known as a definitive study of pain and inflicting pain. She argues that physical pain leads to destruction and the unmaking of the human world, whereas human creation at the opposite end of the spectrum leads to the making of the world. Her 1999 study, "Dreaming by the Book" won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. In 1998, Elaine Scarry, a non-scientist, authored an article "The Fall of TWA 800: The Possibility of Electromagnetic Interference" which appeared in *The New York Review of Books*.