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Laura Marcus
British literature scholar (1956–2021)
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]