Laura Marcus
Laura Marcus | |
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| Born | 7 March 1956 London, England |
| Died | 22 September 2021 (aged 65) Bampton, Oxfordshire, England |
| Occupation | Literature scholar |
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Richard Outhwaite (m. 1994) |
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Laura Kay 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]
Background
Laura Kay Marcus was born at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London on 7 March 1956, and was brought up in Willesden.[4] She attended Warwick University, during which she spent a year studying at Georgetown University, and graduated in 1978.[4] She then received a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Kent.[4]
Career
After brief stints at Indiana University–Bloomington, the University of Southampton, the University of Sussex, and the University of Westminster, Marcus taught at Birkbeck, University of London from 1990 to 1998.[4] In 1994, she published Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice, adapted from her doctoral thesis.[4] In 1999, she returned to the University of Sussex for seven years, of which she spent the final three as Professor of English, then went to the University of Edinburgh as the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature for two years from 2007.[4][5] She joined New College, Oxford, in 2010.[4]
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.[6]
She was an editor of the journal Women: a Cultural Review.[2]
Personal life and death
In 1994, Marcus married Richard Outhwaite.[4] In July 2021, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and died from the disease at her home in Bampton, Oxfordshire, on 22 September 2021 at the age of 65.[4][7]
Books
- Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994)[8]
- Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004)
- The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007)[9][10][11]
- Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014)[12][13]
- Autobiography: a very short introduction (2018)[14][15]
- 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Collard, David (2025). "Marcus, Laura Kay (1956–2021), literary and film historian and critic". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000382659. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Laura Marcus - Institut d'études avancées de Paris". www.paris-iea.fr. 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 obituary". the Guardian. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.