Desire for Love

Marina Ragachewskaya was born in 1969 in a small town in Belarus, where she finished secondary school with a silver medal (mark of excellence). She attended Minsk State Linguistics University where she majored in English and French (diploma with honours), and obtained a PhD in English Literature from Belarusian State University (the title of her thesis was “D. H. Lawrence’s Psychoanalytical Theory and its Application in His Prose”, 2003). At present, she is working on a post-doctoral thesis at Belarusian State University: “New Forms of Psychological Representation in the 20th Century British Novel”.

Marina Ragachewskaya is an Associate Professor in the Department of World Literature at Minsk State Linguistics University. She teaches the History of British and American Literature; the Contemporary British and American Novel in the context of Time, Fiction Interpretation, Poetry Interpretation and Translation; and Literary Theory. She has taken part in about 80 international conferences (1996–2012) on literary studies, at universities in England, France, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Montenegro, Italy, etc.

Dr Ragachewskaya has published about 90 articles (in Russian, English and Belarusian – in her home country and internationally) on D. H. Lawrence and a few other British and American writers (D. Lodge and I. McEwan, among others), the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, and Modernism. Her book, in Russian, about psychoanalysis in D. H. Lawrence’s works has been submitted for publication (Minsk State Linguistics University Press).