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45
Citations
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3720
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Holberg Prize, Government of Norway "for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture and literature which inspired research across the humanities and the social sciences throughout the world and have also had a significant impact on feminist theory"
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Julia Kristeva is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and has contributed extensively to fields including Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Their interdisciplinary research spans subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory, Clinical Psychology, Religious Studies, and Archeology.

The main topics addressed in their body of work include Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research, Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Archaeology and Historical Studies, Health, Medicine and Society, Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies, Eastern European Communism and Reforms, and Contemporary Literature and Criticism.

Kristeva has published papers in several notable venues, including:

  • Revue française de psychanalyse
  • Theory Now Journal of Literature Critique and Thought
  • Adolescence
  • L école des parents
  • Izvestiâ Rossijskoj akademii nauk. Seriâ literatury i âzyka

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of interests and were published between 2020 and 2023:

  • "Sexualidad y discapacidad" (2023) in Theory Now Journal of Literature Critique and Thought
  • "La psychanalyse est le lieu de la sur-vivance" (2021) in Revue française de psychanalyse
  • "" Comment peut-on être djihadiste?"" (2021) in Adolescence
  • "Du besoin de croire" (2020) in L école des parents
  • "" Antinomies du concept de perversion et épigenèse de l'appétit d'excitation: notre duplicité d'être inachevé ", de Ilse Barande et Robert Barande" (2020) in Revue française de psychanalyse

Frequent co-authors include Odile Amblard and François Richard, reflecting collaborative work in areas relevant to Kristeva's fields of study.

Their book publications, predominantly with Columbia University Press, cover themes aligned with language, culture, and literature. Notable works include:

  • "Revolution in Poetic Language" (2024)
  • "Hatred and Forgiveness" (2025)
  • "The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt" (2025)
  • "Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language" (2021)
  • "Time and Sense" (2025)
  • "Passions of Our Time" (2025)
  • "New Maladies of the Soul" (2025)

Julia Kristeva has been recognized with several awards, including the Holberg Prize from the Government of Norway in 2004 for work intersecting language, culture, and literature with implications across humanities and social sciences. They were also named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

    Julia Kristeva

  • Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

    Julia Kristeva;Leon Samuel Roudiez;Thomas Gora;Alice Jardine

  • Revolution in poetic language

    Julia Kristeva;Margaret Waller;Leon Samuel Roudiez

  • Strangers to Ourselves.

    Mary Evans;Julia Kristeva;Leon S. Roudiez

  • The Kristeva reader

    Julia Kristeva;Toril Moi

  • Women's Time

    Julia Kristeva;Alice Jardine;Harry Blake

  • Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

    Julia Kristeva

  • In the beginning was love : psychoanalysis and faith

    Julia Kristeva

  • Tales of Love

    Julia Kristeva

  • Strangers to Ourselves

    Julia Kristeva;Leon Samuel Roudiez

  • Étrangers à nous-mêmes

    Winnie Woodhull;Julia Kristeva

  • Nations without nationalism

    Julia Kristeva;Leon Samuel Roudiez

  • About Chinese women

    Julia Kristeva

  • The Portable Kristeva

    Julia Kristeva;Kelly Oliver

  • New maladies of the soul

    Julia Kristeva

  • Pouvoirs de l'horreur : essai sur l'abjection

    Julia Kristeva

  • La révolution du langage poétique : l'avant-garde à la fin du XIXe siècle, Lautréamont et Mallarmé

    Julia Kristeva

  • Julia Kristeva, interviews

    Julia Kristeva;Ross Mitchell Guberman

  • Fremde sind wir uns selbst

    Julia Kristeva

  • Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative

    Julia Kristeva

  • Language: The Unknown - An Initiation into Linguistics

    Julia Kristeva

  • Pouvoirs de l'horreur - Essai sur l'abjection

    Julia Kristeva

Frequent Co-Authors

Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Luce Irigaray
Luce Irigaray Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler Cornell University

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