On the Experience of a Melancholic Gaze

Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis at Roehampton University in London. She is a graduate of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Clinic programme, Consultation and the Organisation: Psychoanalytic Approaches, and undertook her postdoctoral work at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies at the University of Sheffield. Caroline edits the film section of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is a Fellow of the College established by that journal. She also directs the Media and the Inner World research network which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council between 2009 and 2013. Caroline's editorial commitments also include series editorship for the ‘Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture’ list published by Routledge, and she is a Founding Member of the BPC Scholar Steering Group, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her research interests focus on psychoanalytic approaches to cinema, television, gender, and popular culture.