Laura Marcus
Laura Marcus FBA (7 March 1956 – 22 September 2021)[1] was a British literature scholar. She was Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at New College, Oxford and published widely on 19th- and 20th-century literature and film,[2] with particular interests in autobiography, modernism, Virginia Woolf, and psychoanalysis.[3]
Marcus won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize for her book The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period.[3] In 2011, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[4]
Prior to joining Oxford, Marcus was Professor of English at Sussex University and Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.[5]
She was an editor of the journal Women: a Cultural Review.[2]
She died of pancreatic cancer on 22 September 2021 at the age of 65.[6]
Books
- Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994)[7]
- Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004)
- The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007)[8][9][10]
- Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014)[11][12]
- Autobiography: a very short introduction (2018)[13][14]
- co-ed. The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004)
References
- ^ "Professor Laura Marcus | New College". www.new.ox.ac.uk. Oxford University. Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Professor Laura Marcus". www.english.ox.ac.uk. Oxford University. Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ a b "In Memoriam: Professor Laura Marcus". British Association for Modernist Studies. 24 September 2021. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Professor Laura Marcus FBA". The British Academy. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Laura Marcus - Institut d'études avancées de Paris". www.paris-iea.fr. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Laura Marcus obituary". the Guardian. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- JSTOR 3174968.
- from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- JSTOR 20468145.
- ISSN 0036-9543.
- from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- S2CID 199955530.
- S2CID 235017125.