Professor Jacqueline Rose FBA

English Language and Literature South Africa African Languages and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Subjects
Literature

Summary

Jacqueline Rose is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986, 2006 Verso Radical Thinkers), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991), States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (2007), Proust Among the Nations - from Dreyfus to the Middle East (2012). She is also the author of the novel Albertine (2001). Women in Dark Times was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose came out in 2010, and The Jacqueline Rose Reader in 2011. A regular writer for The London Review of Books, she is a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is Professor of Humanities at Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London.

Current post

Professor of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London

Past appointments

Birkbeck College University of London Professor of Humanities

2015 -

Queen Mary University of London Professor of English

1992 -

Queen Mary University of London Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London

1992 -

Queen Mary University of London Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London

1992 - 2015

School for Global studies, University of Sussex Lecturer to Reader in English

1976 - 1991

Publications

The Plague

Jacqueline Rose - Published in 2023 by Fitzcarraldo Editions

Women in Dark Times

Jacqueline Rose - Published in 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Jacqueline Rose - Published in 2013 by Virago Classic

Proust Among the Nations

Jacqueline Rose - Published in 2012 by University of Chicago Press

The Question of Zion

Jacqueline Rose - Published in 2007 by Princeton University Press

Sexuality in the Field of Vision 2005 (1986)

Jacqueline Rose - Published in 2006 by Verso

Albertine, a Novel 2001

Jacqueline Rose - Published in 2002 by Vintage

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA

Creolisation between Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds; Critical philology, including intellectual lineages of the European Middle Ages; European (post)imperial legacies in comparative frame; memory, trauma, and the politics of pleasure

Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA

Professor Neil Lazarus FBA

Postcolonial literary studies; modernisation, modernity, modernism; critical social theory, sociology of literature; the questions of 'world literature' and comparative literary studies; more broadly, modern literature (1850 to the present)

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Professor Derek Attridge FBA

The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.

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