Laura Kay Marcus

Laura Kay Marcus (7 March 1956 – 22 September 2021) 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, with particular interests in autobiography, modernism, Virginia Woolf and psychoanalysis. She attended Warwick University, during which she spent a year studying at Georgetown University, and graduated in 1978. She joined New College, Oxford, in 2010. In 2011, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

She was an editor of the journal Women: a Cultural Review.

Books Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994) Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004) The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007) Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014) Autobiography: a very short introduction (2018) co-ed. The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004)