ABSTRACT
Julia Kristeva (b. 1941) is a psychoanalyst and feminist theorist of language and literature. Born in Bulgaria, she moved to Paris in 1965 on a doctoral research fellowship. There she quickly became involved in the leftist intellectual movement that congregated around the literary journal Tel Quel, in which Jacques DERRIDA was also a participant. Her most influential teacher during that time was Roland BARTHES. Her doctoral thesis, Revolution in Poetic Language, published in 1974, led to her appointment as chair in linguistics at the University of Paris VII, where she has remained throughout her academic career. Since 1979, she has also maintained a psychoanalytic practice.
