Jane Marcus
Jane Marcus (1938–2015) was a Distinguished English professor at the City University of New York and the City College of New York, whose faculty she joined in 1986.[1] She was a notable feminist critic, focusing mainly on modernist texts, particularly the works of Virginia Woolf.[2] Marcus taught at the University of Texas and helped found women's studies programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Texas, and was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.[3]
Marcus was of Irish Catholic descent.[4] She was the mother of novelist Ben Marcus and is portrayed in his book Notable American Women; through him, her daughter-in-law is writer Heidi Julavits. Her husband, Michael Marcus, is a retired mathematician.[5]
Works
- Virginia Woolf and the languages of patriarchy[6]
- Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant (editor)
- Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman
- The Young Rebecca West
- Britannia Rules The Waves
- A Key to a Room of One's Own
- White Looks: Modernism, Primitivism and Nancy Cunard
- Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race
References
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