Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger

About Jane Marcus

Jane Marcus one of the most insightful critics of modernism was a Distinguished Professor of English at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A pioneering feminist literary scholar she specialized in women writers of the modernist era changing the way we read the work of Virginia Woolf Rebecca West and Nancy Cunard among others by focusing on the social and political context and implications of their writing. She published extensively in her field including such foundational titles as Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy (1987); Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman (1988); and Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race (2004). As an educator her seminars on literary modernism the other World War I the Spanish Civil War and Virginia Woolf for the 21st Century were highly regarded and generative as she inspired succeeding generations of young scholars and activists to mine the archives in order to adjust and correct the public record. Jean Mills is a feminist scholar and literary critic specializing in Peace Studies Virginia Woolf intellectual history feminist theory and literary modernism. She is the author of Virginia Woolf Jane Ellen Harrison and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (2014) as well as essays on Gertrude Stein Hope Mirrlees Jane Ellen Harrison and Virginia Woolf and the intersections of gender race and class. She is an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Modernist Studies dividing her time between New York City and Accord New York. She is currently at work on a collection of essays Literary Approaches to Peace and a full length study 1924: A Year in the Life of Virginia Woolf.