Laura Marcus

Marcus at New College Oxford

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

  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. ^ a b "Professor Laura Marcus". www.english.ox.ac.uk. Oxford University. Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  3. ^ 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.
  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.