Maggie Humm (born 1945) is an English feminist academic and emeritus professor of cultural studies at the University of East London.

She earned a Ph.D. from King's College London in 1980, focusing on Paul Goodman, and obtained a diploma in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2016.

Humm has engaged with a range of theories and ideas—including the "anxiety of influence," écriture féminine, postmodernism, and life-writing—guided by the belief that subjectivity and creativity are essential to nonfiction writing.

Humm's work explores Woolf's relationship with feminism, popular culture, and twentieth-century women's writing across forty years of criticism.

It follows Lily's journey to becoming a professional artist, including her relationships, mourning her mother, and investigating Mrs. Ramsay’s death.