Maggie Humm

Maggie Humm is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies University of East London. Her books include Border Traffic, The Dictionary of Feminist Theory (the first edition of which was named 'outstanding academic book' by Choice), the best-selling Modern Feminisms; Feminism and Film; Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema; Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, Rutgers University Press and the Tate; and The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, (the focus of an Edinburgh International Book Festival talk). Radical Space, Rowman and Littlefield. Her debut novel Talland House, She Writes Press, 2020, was selected by The Washington Independent Review of Books as one of its 'Favorite Books of 2020', and won an International Impact Award. Her second novel Radical Woman: Gwen John & Rodin, 2023 about the tumultuous relationship of John & Rodin won a BookFest Award. The Bloomsbury Photographs, Yale University Press is 2024 She was an editor of the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Women and has been a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at many universities including Massachusetts, San Diego State, Stanford, Rutgers, Queen's Belfast, and Karachi. She gave an Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture and keynote and plenary papers in Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, the US and elsewhere. Media include consultant and participant in the BBC Schools prize winning Nice Girls Don’t Swear and BBC Women’s Hour, World Service, BBC 4 Today and Front Row, overseas - Turkey TRT World television ‘Showcase’, France Culture La Grande Traversee: Virginia Woolf, French TV Arte ‘Cornwall Through the Eyes of Virginia Woolf.