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Open lecture to consider 'Partition, Proust and Palestine'

Jacqueline Rose, Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London, will give the 2008 Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities' open lecture at the University of Kent on Friday 14 March.

Titled Partition, Proust and Palestine, her lecture will take place at 6pm in the Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, on the University's Canterbury campus, and is free and open to all. There is disabled access to Keynes College and the lecture theatre.

Professor Jacqueline Rose writes and lectures 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 publications include 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.

Her 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); and 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 research will extend her analysis of Zionism in relation to literature and psychoanalysis through a study of the writings of the pioneer Zionist and psychoanalyst, David Eder.

Contact: mediaoffice@kent.ac.uk

Story published at 11:27am 10 March 2008