She is a graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford, and gained her higher degree (maîtrise) from the Sorbonne, Paris.
Rose's book Albertine, a novel from 2001, is a feminist variation on Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
[5] Rose's States of Fantasy (1996) was the inspiration for composer Mohammed Fairouz's Double Concerto of the same title.
[8] In the same interview, Rose points to the internal critique of Zionism expressed by Martin Buber and Ahad Ha'am.
Rose's claim in The Question of Zion[9] that Israel is responsible for "some of the worst cruelties of the modern nation-state" has been questioned as disconnected from historical reality and been characterised instead as "moralizing" by the Israeli historian Alexander Yakobson in the Hebrew periodical Katharsis.