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 won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize for her book The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period.

[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.

[2] She died of pancreatic cancer on 22 September 2021 at the age of 65.