Sharon Marcus

Sharon Marcus (born 1966) is an American academic. She is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She specializes in nineteenth-century British and French literature and culture, and teaches courses on the 19th-century novel in England and France, particularly in relation to the history of urbanism and architecture; gender and sexuality studies; narrative theory; and 19th-century theater and performance. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center.

Before joining Columbia in 2003, Marcus taught and received tenure at the University of California, Berkeley.

Personal life Marcus was married to writer Ellis Avery until the latter's death in 2019.

Publications Books Articles "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention" (1992)