Laura Marcus FBA (7 March 1956 – 22 September 2021) was a British literature scholar. She was Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at

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and published widely on 19th- and 20th-century literature and film, with particular interests in

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, and

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. Marcus won the

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for her book ''The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period''. In 2011, she was elected a

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. Prior to joining Oxford, Marcus was Professor of English at

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and Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the

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. She was an editor of the journal ''Women: a Cultural Review''. She died of pancreatic cancer on 22 September 2021 at the age of 65.

Books

* ''Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice'' (1994) *''Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work'' (1997/2004) *''The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period'' (2007) *''Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema'' (2014) *''Autobiography: a'' ''very short introduction'' (2018) * co-ed. ''The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature'' (2004)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marcus, Laura 1956 births 2021 deaths Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Sussex British literary critics British women literary critics Deaths from pancreatic cancer Fellows of New College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy