British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Jacqueline Rose
Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London

Year elected: 2006

Her writing is distinguished and courageous, and has established her as a major thinker in this country and abroad. She works always at points of difficulty, whether conceptual, political, or aesthetic. She examines the interactions between literature, psychoanalytic theory, and the principles of political life, by applying a range of tools from different disciplines to the complexity of her chosen issues.