Rachel Bowlby is the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. She grew up in Billingham-on-Tees, Croydon, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and studied at Oxford and Yale, where she received her PhD. She has written books on the history of shopping – about department stores in JUST LOOKING (Methuen) and on supermarkets in CARRIED AWAY (Faber); on Virginia Woolf, and on psychoanalysis and contemporary culture in STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS (Routledge) and SHOPPING WITH FREUD (Routledge). Her most recent book is FREUDIAN MYTHOLOGIES: GREEK TRAGEDY AND MODERN IDENTITIES (Oxford University Press). She is currently working on a major general interest book about new and old forms of parenthood.
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