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Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis; Visiting fellow, Clare Hall Cambridge University, 1993-4, Scholar Incentive Award, The City College of New York, 1993 (Spring); Eisner Fellow, CCNY (Strasbourg, France, 1991-3; Coordinator of Women's Studies Certificate Program, CUNY, 1991-1994; 1990 Iris Howard Regents Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Texas.
44:, and Nancy Cunard. During the course of her research on West, Marcus and West became friends in the last years of West's life, and the two shared a passion for women's writings and women's perspectives, as well as for controversy, outspokenness, and original thinking from a feminist perspective. The Jane Marcus Collection is newly housed at
31:, among many others, she devised groundbreaking analyses of Woolf's writings, upending a generation of criticism that ignored feminist, pacifist, and socialist themes in much of Woolf's work and critique of imperialism and bourgeois society. Marcus's understanding of Woolf's place within the larger context of
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Fellow in 1993. She was an IRADAC Fellow (Rockefeller) CCNY 2002-2003; March–April 1997, Rockefeller
Bellagio Residency, Fall 1996; Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France, 1995-6; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Harry Ransome Humanities Research Center, University of Texas (June 1996);
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has become prevailing wisdom today in the fields affected by her theorization and research, despite the controversial nature of her positions when they were originally formulated and how much opposition she garnered from earlier scholars and critics.
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Illuminating aspects of their work that had been overlooked or undervalued, Marcus was also an expert and groundbreaking scholar in relation to other key figures of the 20th century, such as Dame
Rebecca West, the British composer
314:"A Tale of Two Cultures" Review essay covering MFS Woolf Issues, Vita and Virginia by Suzanne Raitt, and the play Vita and Virginia, the Sally Potter film of Orlando and three Woolf conferences,
19:(1938–2015) was a pioneering feminist literary scholar, specializing in women writers of the Modernist era, but especially in the social and political context of their writings. Focusing on
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are of particular interest to scholars working in the fields of feminist theory, gender studies, modernism, and women's history, among others.
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244:"Bonding and Bondage: Nancy Cunard and the Making of the Negro Anthology" in
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181:. London: Macmillan, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1987.
206:. London: Cecil Woolf Publishers, Bloomsbury Heritage Series #11, 1996.
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Jane Marcus did her undergraduate A.B. cum laude in
English, 1960, at
279:"Nancy Cunard and the Writing of Race in the Spanish Civil War," in
251:"Wrapped in the Stars and Stripes: Virginia Woolf in the U.S.A.,"
258:"Working Lips, Breaking Hearts: Class Acts in American Culture,"
510:"Ben Marcus: 'We can contain such secret misery and perversion'"
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Cambridge: The Proper Upkeep of Names
237:"Registering Objections: Grounding Feminist Alibis" in
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Bloomsbury: A Centenary Celebration
369:"Nancy Cunard" Curtis Moffat Portfolio, London: 2001.
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Aesthetics
328:"Domestic Interiors: The Art of Dora Carrington,"
228:Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays
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200:. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.
187:. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
185:Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy
174:. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
113:Marcus was of Irish Catholic descent. Born in
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393:White Looks: Modernism, Primitivism and
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343:Revisioning Feminism Around the World
272:"Afterword" to Merry Pawlowski, ed.,
153:New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf
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147:Selected Writings of Caroline Norton
348:Review essay on Woolf and Lessing,
198:Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman
561:20th-century British women writers
508:Brockes, Emma (21 February 2014).
293:"Amy Lowell, Body and Sou-ell" in
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341:"What I Want for Feminism," in
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222:'Britannia Rules The Waves' in
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362:"Putting Woolf in Her Place,"
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387:A Key to a Room of One's Own
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336:The World Book Encyclopedia
330:The Women's Review of Books
323:The Women's Review of Books
316:The Women's Review of Books
295:Amy Lowell: American Modern
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302:Rediscovering Rebecca West
290:, vol 9 #3, 2002, 491-502.
274:Virginia Woolf and Fascism
265:"Post Scriptum...Triste,"
357:Virginia Woolf Miscellany
194:. London: Routledge, 1987
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281:Women Write the Thirties
276:. Macmillan 2001, 194-5.
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364:Women's Review of Books
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556:American women critics
435:"Jane Marcus Obituary"
381:Unfinished manuscripts
372:"Nancy Cunard" in new
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124:Notable American Women
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