Professor Jacqueline Rose, FBA BA (Oxford) Maîtrise (Sorbonne) PhD (London)
Professor

Jacqueline Rose's research focuses on modern subjectivity at the interface of literature, psychoanalysis, and politics, as well as on the history and culture of South Africa and of Israel-Palestine. Her most recent publications are Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (the 2009 Frederick Ives Carpenter Lectures, Chicago University Press, 2012); The Last Resistance (Verso, 2007); The Question of Zion (the Princeton University 2003 Christian Gauss seminars, Princeton University Press and Melbourne University Press, 2005); On Not Being Able to Sleep – psychoanalysis in the modern world (Chatto, 2003); and the novel Albertine (Chatto, 2001) based on her reading and teaching of the writing of Marcel Proust. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose (Seagull Press) was published in 2010 and The Jacqueline Rose Reader, edited by Justin Clemens and Ben Naparstek, in 2011 (Duke University Press).

Earlier publications include studies of children's fiction: The Case of Peter Pan, or, the impossibility of children's fiction (Macmillan, 1984); of Sylvia Plath: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Virago, 1991); of war and psychoanalysis: Why War – psychoanalysis, politics and the return to Melanie Klein (Blackwell, 1993). She writes regular reviews for The London Review of Books. Future publications will include writing on the revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg, and the German Jewish painter, Charlotte Salomon. She is the co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices launched in the UK in 2007 and a fellow of the British Academy.

In collaboration with Professor Daniel Pick of the School of History at Birkbeck, University of London, she has been running a London University-wide Graduate Forum 'Psychoanalytic Thought, History and Political Life' for a number of years.

Research interests:

• Psychoanalysis
• Modern Literature and Culture
• South African writing
• Zionism and the history and writing of Israel-Palestine

Postgraduate supervision:

Jacqueline would welcome enquiries from potential doctoral students interested in any of the areas of her research.

She has recently supervised the following successful PhD projects:

• Justine Scoot-McCarthy, 'Edges of the Mind: Psychic Margins and the Modernist Aesthetic in Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Jane Harrison, and Dion Fortune' (2001)
• Sadie Wearing, 'Time’s Age: Degeneration and Memory in Wilde, Morris, and Hardy' (2001)
• Amanda Dackombe, 'Making Thought Visible: Colour in the Writings of Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Samuel Beckett, and TS Eliot' (2003)
• Matt ffytche, 'Unconscious Foundations: Schelling, Freud, and the Equivocation of the Liberal Psyche', co-supervised with Paul Hamilton (2004)
• Colette Guldimann, '"A Symbol of the New African": Drum Magazine, Popular Culture, and the Formation of Black Urban Subjectivity in 1950s South Africa' (2004)
• Maeve Pearson, 'The Work of Childhood: Utopianism and Disenchantment in the Writings of Charles Fourier, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James (senior), and Henry James (junior)' (2004)
• Drew Shaw, 'Transgression and Beyond: Dambudzo Marchera and Zimbabwean Literature', co-supervised with Lisa Jardine (2004)
• Katy Menczer, 'From Flesh to Fiction: The Visible and the Invisible in the Work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eudora Welty, and Elizabeth Bowen' (2007)
• Tamar Steinitz, 'An Other Tongue: Language and Identity in Translingual Writing' (2010)

Publications:

Books:

Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (Chicago University Press, 2012)

The Jacqueline Rose Reader, edited by Justin Clemens and Ben Neparstek (Duke University Press, 2011)

Conversations with Jacqueline Rose, with Antony Lerman, Henrietta Moore and Stephen Frosh, Supriya Chaudhuri and Aveek Sen (Seagull Press, 2010)

The Last Resistance (Verso, 2007)

Sexuality in the Field of Vision (Radical Thinkers) (Verso, 2006)

The Question of Zion, the Christian Gauss seminars in the Humanities (Princeton University Press, 2004)

On Not Being Able to Sleep: Essays on Psychoanalysis in the Modern World (Chatto and Windus and Princeton University Press, 2003)

Albertine: a novel (Chatto and Windus, 2001; Vintage 2002)

Recent Articles:

‘A Rumbling of Things Unknown’, London Review of Books, 34, 8 (2012), 29-34

‘History Is a Nightmare’, in Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned: The Polish Trilogy, ed. by E. Nairne and J. Lingwood, exhibition catalogue (London: Artangel, 2012)

‘What more could we want of ourselves?’, London Review of Books, 33, 12 (2011), 5-12

with J. Mitchell and J. Radford, ‘Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Future of Feminism: A Conversation’, Women: A Cultural Review, 21 (2010), 75-103 doi:10.1080/09574040903560368

‘“J’accuse”: Dreyfus in Our Times’, London Review of Books, 32 (2010), 3-9

See also Jacqueline Rose's Queen Mary Research Publications profile

Undergraduate teaching:

In the current academic year, Jacqueline contributes to undergraduate teaching on:

• ESH358: Palestine-Israel, Israel-Palestine: Politics and the Literary Imagination
• ESH370: Reading Psychoanalysis Reading Literature

Postgraduate teaching:

In the current academic year, Jacqueline contributes to postgraduate teaching on:

• LCMM011: Psychoanalysis and Modern Culture