Author: Naomi D. Segal

Naomi Segal is Professorial Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. From 2004 to 2011 she was founding director of the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies. She has served on or chaired many national and international committees. She has published over seventy articles and twelve books, of which the most recent are Consensuality: Didier Anzieu, Gender and the Sense of Touch (2009), Indeterminate Bodies (2003), Le Désir à l”Œuvre (2000) and André Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy (1998). Gill Rye is Professor Emerita and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, where she is director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women”s Writing. She is author of Narratives of Mothering (2009), Reading for Change (2001) and numerous articles and chapters on women”s writing. She was managing editor of the Journal of Romance Studies from 2000 until 2010.