Professor Jacqueline Rose FBA

English Language and Literature South Africa African Languages and Literature

Elected 2006

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

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