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 at New College Oxford

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
  1. "Professor Laura Marcus | New College". www.new.ox.ac.uk. Oxford University. Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  2. "Professor Laura Marcus". www.english.ox.ac.uk. Oxford University. Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  3. "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.
  4. "Professor Laura Marcus FBA". The British Academy. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  5. "Laura Marcus - Institut d'études avancées de Paris". www.paris-iea.fr. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  6. "Laura Marcus obituary". the Guardian. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  7. Corbett, Mary Jean (1995). "Review of The Auto/Biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/Biography; De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography; I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir; Sending My Heart Back across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography; Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories". Signs. 20 (2): 476–481. doi:10.1086/494993. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3174968.
  8. Highmore, Ben (9 December 2009). "The Making of English Photography: Allegories by Steve Edwards The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film c. 1900 by Lynda Nead The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period by Laura Marcus". Visual Culture in Britain. 10 (3): 361–368. doi:10.1080/14714780903266604. ISSN 1471-4787. S2CID 191212813. Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  9. Shail, Andrew (2009). "Review of The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period". The Modern Language Review. 104 (1): 155–157. doi:10.2307/20468145. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 20468145.
  10. Trotter, David (1 October 2009). "The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period". Screen. 50 (3): 345–346. doi:10.1093/screen/hjp019. ISSN 0036-9543.
  11. Shin, Jacqueline (2016). "Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema by Laura Marcus (review)". Modernism/Modernity. 23 (4): 916–918. doi:10.1353/mod.2016.0083. ISSN 1080-6601. S2CID 152255024. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  12. Heffer, Byron (2 January 2016). "Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema". Textual Practice. 30 (1): 189–193. doi:10.1080/0950236X.2015.1112652. ISSN 0950-236X. S2CID 146535501. Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  13. Schmitt, Arnaud (3 April 2021). "Autobiography. A Very Short Introduction". Life Writing. 18 (2): 303–305. doi:10.1080/14484528.2019.1644269. ISSN 1448-4528. S2CID 199955530.
  14. Jolly, Margaretta (2020). "Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction by Laura Marcus (review)". Biography. 43 (2): 501–504. doi:10.1353/bio.2020.0047. ISSN 1529-1456. S2CID 235017125.
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