In this seminar Mary Jacobus will discuss Ishiguro's recent novel about memory loss, ‘The Buried Giant,’ seen through the lens of British Object relations psychoanalysis, will be paired with 'the third eye' of Paddy Summerfield's decade-long photographic essay, ‘Mother and Father.’
Biography
Professor Jacobus is currently Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a Professorial Fellow of Churchill College. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, and the AHRC, and is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. From 2006 she has been Director of Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), which supports dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.