Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of English at the University of Oxford, where she is a Fellow of New College. She is the author of Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice; Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Works and The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period. She has also co-edited Close Up, 1927 1933: Cinema and Modernism and The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature.