Is there a Feminine Genius?

Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 @ 8 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Julia Kristeva
Professor of Linguistics
Universite' de Paris VII

Julia Kristeva is a practicing psychoanalyst and professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII, and she has also held regular visiting appointments at Columbia, Toronto, and The New School. She is the author of more than twenty-five books, including three novels, many of which have been published in translation by Columbia. Her writing brings together pychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, literature, linguistics, and philosophy. Her publications include: Revolution in Poetic Language; Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art; Melanie Klein; Hannah Arendt; Strangers to Ourselves; New Maladies of the Soul; Black Sun; Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection; Time and Sense; The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt; Intimate Revolt. Reviewing her first published book, Semeiotiké: Recherches pour une semanalyse, Roland Barthes wrote: “Julia Kristeva changes the order of things: she always destroys the latest preconception, the one we thought we could be comforted by, the one of which we could be proud.” Last year she received Norway’s Holberg Prize, and in the fall of 2005, she will receive Bucknell’s Award of Merit.