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Professor Naomi Segal has been a comparatist since her PhD, and researches on literature, culture and theory, with a particular interest in psychoanalysis, the body, gender and sexuality. In her last post, in the Department of French Studies at the University of Reading, she founded and directed the MA on The Body & Representation . She is the author of over 50 articles and 10 books, most recently Indeterminate Bodies (2003, coedited), Le Désir à l'oeuvre (2000, edited), André Gide: Pederasty & Pedagogy (1998), and Coming out of Feminism (1997: coedited). Among other things, she has published on the French récit; the novel of adultery; triangles in Fatal Attraction and The Piano; Gide, Barrie, birds and boys; unicorns in Rilke; and Princess Diana. Her new book is on Didier Anzieu, skin and cultural objects, entitled Consensuality: Didier Anzieu, gender and the sense of touch.