Jacqueline Rose

Rose graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied English. She gained her higher degree (maîtrise) in comparative literature from the Sorbonne, Paris, where she was influenced by Julia Kristeva, became interested in Sigmund Freud, worked at Yves Saint Laurent and began her doctoral research on children's literature. She took her doctorate in 1979 from the University of London, University College (by the time of her graduation renamed to University College London), where she was supervised by Frank Kermode. She was a lecturer, then reader in English at the School for Global Studies, University of Sussex, from 1976 to 1991, and taught a women's writing course there in the 1980s. In 2006, Rose was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, As of 2023, she was a co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. ==Work==

Rose's book Albertine, a novel from 2001, is a feminist variation on Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. In 1991, Rose published The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, a critical study of the life and work of American poet Sylvia Plath. The book "tore down the construction of Plath-as-icon, not least through the husbanding of her estate by her widower, Ted Hughes, and his sister, Olwyn". In 2018, Rose published Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty. She was the judge of the Man Booker Prize in 2018. Rose has long been interested in Proust, who features in her 2011 non-fiction title Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East, as well as her only novel, Albertine. ==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. She describes her visit to Palestinian refugee camps in Ramallah in the 1980s as having provided her with a political education. In The Question of Zion Rose argued that Israel is responsible for "some of the worst cruelties of the modern nation-state". Israeli historian Alexander Yakobson described this as "moralizing" and disconnected from historical reality. In 2007, she was involved in establishing the Independent Jewish Voices. ==Bibliography==

Rose was born and grew up in Hayes in west London with her two sisters. Her elder sister was the philosopher Gillian Rose, and she is a cousin of the theatre director Braham Murray. Her father, a doctor, arrived in the United Kingdom from a prisoner-of-war camp where he had suffered torture; he and her mother, who was prevented by her family from attending medical school, divorced when Rose was three. Rose grew up with her stepfather, who also had a surgical practice, and whose surname she took along with her sister. Some fifty members of her mother's family, the Prevezers, had been murdered by the Nazis in the Chełmno extermination camp in central Poland. She befriended fellow feminists Juliet Mitchell, Laura Mulvey, and Sally Alexander during her PhD years at UCL. In the 1990s Rose was in a relationship with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, with whom she adopted a Chinese-born daughter, Mia, in 1995. In 2012, her partner was the psychoanalyst Jonathan Sklar. She lives in North London. ==Notes==