ABSTRACT
Julia Kristeva (1940-) is a psychoanalyst and feminist theorist of language and literature. Born in Bulgaria, she moved to Paris in 1966 on a doctoral research fellowship. There, she quickly became involved in the leftist intellectual movement that congregated around the literary journal Tel Quel. Her most influential teacher during that time was Roland BARTHES. Her doctoral thesis, Revolution in Poetic Language, was published in 1974 and led to her appointment to a chair in linguistics at the University of Paris VII, where she has remained throughout her academic career. Since 1979 she has also maintained a practice as a psychoanalyst.
