Talk:Maggie Humm

Maggie Humm

Humm was educated at the University of East Anglia, graduating in 1966. She gained a Ph.D. from King's College London in 1980, and a Diploma in Creative Writing (University of East Anglia) 2016. Humm was in the founding year of the University of East Anglia reading English. See interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7-Ple2f8-8 followed by a PhD on Paul Goodman. The research introduced her to the US and she has been a Visiting Scholar and professor at the universities of Massachusetts, San Diego, Stanford and Rutgers, and also given keynote and plenary papers in Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, Holland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, the US and elsewhere. See https://uel.academia.edu/MaggieHumm

She was Co-Chair of the British Women’s Studies Association, and founded the first full-time undergraduate UK Women’s Studies degree. Currently Vice-Chair the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. In 2022, following her four year campaign, St Ives Council agreed to place a plaque to Virginia Woolf on Talland House, Woolf's childhood home. See the unveiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Humm's writings principally cohere around a sense of women’s writing as inseparable from its cultural production. Her multi-faceted books and essays reveal how feminist criticism changed in one academic’s career from 1986 from the publication of Feminist Criticism. Humm has discussed a range of theories and ideas including ‘the anxiety of influence’, écriture feminine, postmodernism, life-writing all informed by a belief that subjectivity and creativity are integral to non-fiction writing. At the centre of these discussions is the work of Virginia Woolf, whose reputation and scholarly status are unique, and of course Woolf permeates popular culture. Humm's work maps Woolf’s relationship with feminism, popular culture and with twentieth-century women’s writing across forty transformative years of criticism. The Bloomsbury Photographs, containing over 150 photographs is Yale University Press is 2024.

Humm's novel Talland House was chosen by the Washington Independent Review of Books as one of 51 'books of the year' for 2020. It was a 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction (post 1900s). 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List. Winner Women’s Fiction International Impact Book Awards 2024.The heroine is Lily Briscoe from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Set between 1900 and 1919 in picturesque Cornwall and war-blasted London, Talland House depicts Lily’s emotional journey in becoming a professional artist: her loves and friendships, mourning her dead mother, and solving the mystery of Mrs Ramsay’s sudden death. Humm's second novel Radical Woman: Gwen John & Rodin about the tumultuous relationship of the artists was longlisted Yeovil Literary Prize 2020 (as Rodin’s Mistress)/Finalist Page Turner Writing Award 2022/Finalist American Writing Awards Women’s Fiction 2023. Winner Bookfest Women’s Historical Fiction 2023

Works==

* ''An annotated critical bibliography of feminist criticism''. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1984.

* ''Feminist criticism : women as contemporary critics''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

* ''The dictionary of feminist theory''. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989.

* ''Border traffic: strategies of contemporary women writers ''. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

* (ed.) ''Modern feminisms: political, literary, cultural''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

* ''A reader's guide to contemporary feminist literary criticism''. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.

* ''Practising feminist criticism : an introduction''. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995.

* ''Feminism and film''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

* ''Modernist women and visual cultures : Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, photography, and cinema''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.

* ''Snapshots of Bloomsbury : the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell''. London: Tate, 2006.

* (ed.) ''The Edinburgh companion to Virginia Woolf and the arts''.     Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

* (ed. with Debra Benita Shaw) ''Radical space : exploring politics and practice''. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015.

* ''Talland House: a novel''. Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2020.

* ''Radical Woman: Gwen John & Rodin''. Brighton: EER publishing 2022.

* ''The Bloomsbury Photographs''. London: Yale University Pres, 2024. Maggie Humm (talk) 19:19, 8 August 2024 (UTC)