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)