Jacqueline Rose

Professor of Humanities, and co-director of the Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, London, and author of numerous essays and articles on psychoanalysis, feminism, literature, and politics, she studied at Oxford, Sorbonne, and London universities. Rose first became known with her critical study of the life and work of the American poet Sylvia Plath, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Virago, 1992). Notable among her other writings are the essays Women in Dark Times (Bloomsbury, 2015) and The Last Resistance (Verso, 2013), as well as the novel Albertine (Vintage, 2002). Her first work to be translated into Spanish has recently appeared. Titled Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty (Madres, un ensayo sobre la crueldad y el amor, Siruela, 2018), this book analyses and documents the complexities and contradictions of maternity in western culture. Rose, who writes regularly for The London Review of Books and The Guardian, and is co-founder of the independent organisation Jewish Voices, as well as being a fellow of the British Academy and a jury member for the Man Booker Prize.