Jacqueline Rose

Professor Jacqueline Rose FBA FRSL
Born	1949 (age 74–75) London, England
Relatives	Gillian Rose (sister)
Academic background
Education	St Hilda's College, Oxford, Sorbonne, Paris University of London
Academic work
Main interests	The relationship between psychoanalysis, feminism and literature
Notable works	The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Jacqueline Rose (born 1949 in London) is a British academic who is Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.

Life and work

Jacqueline Rose is known for her work on the relationship between psychoanalysis, feminism and literature. She is a graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford, and gained her higher degree (maîtrise) from the Sorbonne, Paris. She took her doctorate from the University of London, where she was supervised by Frank Kermode. Her elder sister was the philosopher Gillian Rose.

Rose's book Albertine, a novel from 2001, is a feminist variation on Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.

Rose is best known for her critical study on the life and work of American poet Sylvia Plath, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, published in 1991. In the book, Rose offers a postmodernist feminist interpretation of Plath's work, and criticises Plath's husband Ted Hughes and other editors of Plath's writing. Rose describes the hostility she experienced from Hughes and his sister (who acts as literary executor to Plath's estate) including threats received from Hughes about some of Rose's analysis of Plath's poem "The Rabbit Catcher". The Haunting of Sylvia Plath was critically acclaimed, and itself subject to a famous critique by Janet Malcolm in her book The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

Rose is a broadcaster and contributor to the London Review of Books.

Rose's States of Fantasy (1996) was the inspiration for composer Mohammed Fairouz's Double Concerto of the same title.

In 2022, Rose was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Criticism of Israel

Rose is highly critical of Zionism, describing it as "[having] been traumatic for the Jews as well as the Palestinians". In the same interview, Rose points to the internal critique of Zionism expressed by Martin Buber and Ahad Ha'am.

Rose's claim in The Question of Zion that Israel is responsible for "some of the worst cruelties of the modern nation-state" has been questioned as disconnected from historical reality and been characterised instead as "moralizing" by the Israeli historian Alexander Yakobson in the Hebrew periodical Katharsis.

Bibliography

• Lacan, Jacques (1985). Mitchell, Juliet; Rose, Jacqueline (eds.). Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne. Translated by Jacqueline Rose. New York, London: Pantheon Books W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393302110 – via Internet Archive.
• — (2013) [1991]. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. London: Virago. ISBN 9780349004358.
• — (1993). The Case of Peter Pan, or, The Impossibility of Children's Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812214352.
• Rose, Jcqueline, ed. (1993). Why War? Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: B. Blackwell. ISBN 9780631189244.
• — (1996). "Feminine sexuality". In Jackson, Stevi; Scott, Sue (eds.). Feminism and Sexuality: A Reader. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 74–78. ISBN 9780231107082.
• — (1996). States of Fantasy. The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature. Oxford England; New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198182801.
• — (2002). Albertine (novel). London: Vintage. ISBN 9780099286035.
• — (2004). On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World. London: Vintage. ISBN 9780099286042.
• — (2005). Sexuality in the Field of Vision. London; New York: Verso. ISBN 9781844670581.
• — (2005). The Question of Zion. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691130682.
• — (2013) [2007]. The Last Resistance. London: Verso. ISBN 9781844672264.
• — (2011). Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226725789.
• — (2014). Women in Dark Times. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408845400.
• — (2018). Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571331437.
• — (2021). On Violence and On Violence Against Women. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571332717.
• — (2023). The Plague. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 9781804270486.

External links

• "Those opposing a cultural and academic boycott of Israel should examine the South African precedent, says Jacqueline Rose", openDemocracy, 4 September 2005. Rose's position on an academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
• "This land is your land", The Observer, 18 August 2002. Rose's views on the state of Israel.
• "What Zionism is Not, a review of The Question of Zion from a Zionist perspective", The Weekly Standard, 14 November 2005
• Interview, The Guardian, 4 January 2003
• "The Ideas Interview: Jacqueline Rose" – John Sutherland, The Guardian, 28 November 2005
• Israel and Resistance: an interview with Jacqueline Rose, State of Nature, Winter 2008
• Video: Jacqueline Rose chairing a discussion with Avi Shlaim and Shlomo Sand at the Frontline Club, London, 12 November 2009