You are cordially invited to a guest lecture by

Laura Marcus (Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)

"'I now, I then': Virginia Woolf's 'A Sketch of the Past' and the practice of autobiography"

Thursday, 8 Nov. 2018, 14:00 s.t. -15:30

UR Anglistik, Altes AKH Hof 8.3, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien

Laura Marcus's research and teaching interests are predominantly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, including life-writing, modernism, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury culture, contemporary fiction, and literature and film. Her book publications include 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) and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004).

Her current research projects include a book on British literature 1910-1920, and a study of the concept of 'rhythm' in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, in a range of disciplinary contexts.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Melanie Malzahn, Privatdoz. (Dean)
ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ute Smit (Head of Department)
Dr. Sandra Mayer, Dr. Michela Borzaga, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mieszkowski (Hosts)