Professor Jacqueline Rose

Overview

Biography

Jacqueline Rose is Professor of Humanities, Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and of the London Critical Theory Summer School.

She is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine.  Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986, Verso Radical Thinkers, 2006), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991), States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (2007, Verso Radical Thinkers, 2016), Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (2012), Women in Dark Times (2014), Mothers – an essay on love and cruelty (2018), and the novel Albertine (2001).  Conversations with Jacqueline Rose came out in 2010, and The Jacqueline Rose Reader in 2011. States of Fantasy and The Last Resistance have formed the basis of musical compositions by the acclaimed young American composer, Mohammed Fairouz. A regular writer for The London Review of Books, she wrote and presented the 2002 Channel 4 TV Documentary, Dangerous Liaison – Israel and the United States. She is a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Before arriving at Birkbeck, she taught at the University of Sussex, at Queen Mary University of London, and in Autumn 2014, as Diane Middlebrook/Carl Djerassi Professor of Gender Studies in Cambridge.

Highlights

• Forthcoming publication: On Violence and On Violence Against Women, Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York and Faber, London, 2020

Web profiles

• London Review of Books

Visiting posts

• Visiting Professorial Fellow, Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, USA, 01 October 2019 to 01 December 2019
• Visiting Professorial Fellow, Institute of Social Justice, Sydney, Australia, 01 May 2016 to 01 May 2017
• Visiting Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge, 01 October 2014 to 01 December 2014
• Visiting Senior Professor, International School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, 01 June 1996 to 01 July 1996
• Visiting Fellow, Commonwealth Centre for Literary and Cultural Change, University of Virginia, 01 September 1991 to 01 December 1991

Professional memberships

• Associate Member of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis

Honours and awards

• Annual Vice-Chancellor's Lecture University of Cape Town, October 2017
• Edward Said Memorial Lecture Princeton, October 2016
• Fellow of the British Academy British Academy, October 2006
• Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters University of Sussex, October 2004
• Honorary Visiting Fellow of Goodenough College Goodenough College, October 2002
• Christian Gauss Seminars Princeton University, October 2003
• Fellow of the English Association English Association, October 2001
• Oxford Clarendon Lectures University of Oxford, October 1994

Research

Research Centres and Institutes

• , Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

2

Current and recent Ph D supervisions include: Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetics of Reading; Palestinian fiction from 1948; Masud Khan, Psychoanalysis and Modernism; Literature and Human Rights (South Africa and Uganda); Psychoanalysis in India;  Sarah Kane, Dramaturgy and Psychoanalysis; Violence and Zimbabwean Writing.  

Current doctoral researchers

• GENEVIEVE SMART

  Nature of supervision:

  JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR, Oct 2020

  Description:

  Place holder

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

• LEAH SIDI

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor

  Description:

  Place holder

  Awarded:

  2019

Teaching

`Freud in the World: Psychoanalysis, Literary Writing and the Legacies of History,’ MA option offered across 4 MAs – English, Psychosocial Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies, Law

Teaching modules

• Psychoanalysis and Culture
• Freud in the world: psychoanalysis, literary writing and the legacies of history

Publications

Business and community

Outreach