Prof Vicky Lebeau

Role

Vicky Lebeau is currently Director of Doctoral School (Arts and Humanities) and Director of the Consortium for Arts and Humanites South-East England (CHASE).

Vicky Lebeau has published widely in the fields of psychoanalysis and visual culture. She has particular interests in the topics of spectacle and terror, sexuality, fantasy and representation - and in popular culture as a form of critical thought. She has recently published Childhood and Cinema (Reaktion and Chicago University Press, 2008). In psychoanalysis, she has interests in Freud, Winnicott, Andre Green, Jean Laplanche, Serge Leclaire, Michael Eigen, Joyce McDougall and Christopher Bollas. She is currently researching the topic of the 'arts of seeing' (including writing on Shane Meadows, Michael Haneke, Gerhard Richter and Don DeLillo) and is working on a book-length project on the idea of loneliness.

Vicky Lebeau currently teaches on the MA in Literature, Film and Visual Culture and the MA in Critical Theory ('Psychoanalysis and the Image').

Lebeau, Vicky (2009) The arts of looking: D.W. Winnicott and Michael Haneke. Screen, 50 (1). pp. 35-44. ISSN 0036-9543

Lebeau, Vicky (2008) Review: T J Clark, 'The sight of death: an experiment in art writing'. Textual Practice, 22 (4). pp. 806-811. ISSN 0950-236X

Lebeau, Vicky (2008) Strange contracts: Elfriede Jelinek and Michael Haneke. Projections, 1 (2). pp. 57-82. ISSN 1934-9688

Lebeau, Vicky (2008) Childhood and cinema. Reaktion and Chicago, London. ISBN 9781861893529

Lebeau, Vicky (2006) Children of violence: Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. In: Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks'. Texts in Culture . Manchester University Press, pp. 128-145. ISBN 9780719064487

Lebeau, Vicky (2005) The unwelcome child: Elizabeth Eckford and Hannah Arendt. In: Race, identity and representation in education. Routledge, New York, pp. 235-242. ISBN 9780415949934

Lebeau, Vicky (2004) The unwelcome child: Elizabeth Eckford and Hannah Arendt. Journal of Visual Culture, 3 (1). pp. 51-62. ISSN 1470-4129

Lebeau, Vicky (2001) Another child of violence. New Formations (42). pp. 19-29. ISSN 0950-2378

Lebeau, Vicky (2001) Psychoanalysis and cinema: the play of shadows. Short Cuts, 8 . Wallflower Press/Columbia UP, London. ISBN 9781903364192

Lebeau, Vicky (2000) A child in question. Angelaki, 5 (1). 149 - 157. ISSN 0969-725X

Lebeau, Vicky (1997) The worst of all possible worlds? In: Visions of Suburbia. Routledge, London, 280 -297. ISBN 9780415107167

Lebeau, Vicky (1994) Lost angels: psychoanalysis and cinema. Routledge, x + 172 pp. ISBN 9780415107211