Maggie Humm is a Professor in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London. Her books include Border Traffic , The Dictionary of Feminist Theory (the first edition of which was named 'outstanding academic book of 1990' by Choice ), the best-selling Modern Feminisms , Feminism and Film, Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2002 and Rutgers University Press, 2003, Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, Rutgers University Press and the Tate, 2006, and The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts (invited author Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010). 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 the Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture in 2002 and has given keynote and plenary papers in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, the USA and elsewhere.

Research on Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell's photography is described on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/mwdMJJjGVz4

Research interests key words: modernism, Virginia Woolf studies, feminist
theory, photography

Qualifications: 
BA Honours Part 1, Class 2 English and American Studies, University of
East Anglia
Ph. D CNAA and King's College University of London: Thesis 'Paul Goodman
and the Critical Uses of Libertarianism'.

Previous Posts Held:
1982: Visiting Professor Queen's University, Belfast.
1986 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Stanford University.
1995 to present: Professor University of East London.
1998 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Rutgers University.
2001 Visiting Fellow, School for Advanced Study University of London
1996 and 2001: RAE Sub panel member.

PhD supervisions

• • Ms Susan Jackson 'Differently Academic: Women in Higher Education'. PhD awarded 2001.
  • Ms. K. Cross 'Framing the Subject: Amateur Photography'. PhD awarded 2007.
  • Ms Vesna Milanovic 'Rethinking Woyzeck Through Marie's Gaze', PhD awarded 2007.
  • Ms Laura Schwartz 'Religion and Owenite Feminism'. PhD awarded 2008.
  • Ms Laura Junka 'Film and Photography', PhD awarded 2010
  • Ms. Susan Allen 'Women's Peace Campaigning', PhD awarded 2011
  • Mr. Jamie Hakim 'Deleuze and Zionism', PT
  • Ms Dolors Ortega 'Deleuze and Virginia Woolf', FT European Doctorate PhD.

Current research: Virginia Woolf and the arts

Publications since 2001:

Books

• 2002 Virginia Woolf, Photography and Modernism, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, Southport, pp20 ISBN 095388662X
• 2002 Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema , Edinburgh University Press/Rutgers University Press, Edinburgh and New Brunswick, pp244 ISBN 0748616837
  
  A Reader's Guide to Feminist Literary Criticism translated into Turkish 2007
  > Read Feminist & Women's Studies Association
• 2006 Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, Rutgers University Press/Tate Publications, pp 230
  > Read Times Online Review (opens new window)
  > Read The Art Book Review
  > Read the interview with Maggie in The Independent Newspaper
  > Read the study days at the Tate
• 2010 The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts (Ed.) Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh and Columbia University Press, New York

Book chapters

• 2001 'Matrixial Memories in Virginia Woolf's Photographs', in Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (eds.) J. Berman and J. Goldman, Pace University Press NY, 206-213, ISBN 0944473555
• 2001 'The Domestic Photography of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: Modernism, the Maternal and the Erotic', in Feminism, Aesthetics and Subjectivity: Women and Culture in Early Twentieth Century British Literature ed. M. Barbieto, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, pp 99-130, ISBN 84 8121 963 0.
• 2001 '"Hasta donde podemos ir, y luego...avazar mas legos": estudios de la mujer en el mundo', in Genero, feminismo y educaion superior: una vision internacional , (eds.) E. Z. Martelo, V. V. Garcia and P. A. Manzanares, Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico City, pp 215-232.
• 2002 'Vanessa Bell's Photographs: Modernism, the Maternal and the Erotic', in Literary Modernism and Photography , ed. P. Hansom, Greenwood Press.
• 2003 'Modernist Women and Cinema', in Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain 1952-2002 (Eds.) I. M. Palacios Martinez et al, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela: Santiago de Compostela, pp 40-62.
• 2005: 'Memory and Photography', (eds. D. Cunningham et al) Photography and Literature in the Twentieth Century, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 42-51
• 2005 'Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell as Photographers' in Woolf in the Real World (ed.) K. Kukil Clemson Digital Press.
• 2006: 'Photography', A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (eds.) D. Bradshaw and K. Dettmar, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 278-283.
• 2007: 'Intertextual Mothers: Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf', Intertextual Dialogues, Travels, Routes (eds) A. Macedo et al, Braga, Portugal: Universidade do Minho.
• 2007: ‘Memory Holes or Heterotopias?: the Bloomsbury Photographs’, in Woolfian Boundaries: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf eds. A. Burrells, S. Ellis, D. Parsons and K. Simpson, Clemson University Digital Press, Clemson, pp150-156
• 2007: ‘Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf and the Maternal’, in Women’s Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy eds. A. Giorgio and J. Waters, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle.
• 2009: ‘Editing Virginia Woolf and the Arts: Virginia Woolf and the Royal Academy’, in Woolf Editing/Editing Woolf eds. E. McNees and S. Veglahn. Clemson University Digital Press, Clemson.
• 2010 'My Own Ghost Met Me': Woolf's 1930s Photographs, Death, and Freud's Acropolis in Gina Potts and Lisa Shahriari (Eds.) Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury Volume 1. Palgrave
• 2010 ‘Virginia Woolf and Visual Culture’, in The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf 2/E (ed.) S.Sellars, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• 2010 'Women Modernists and Visual Culture', in The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers (ed.) M. Linett, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Referenced journals

• 2001 'Madchen Without Uniforms: Contemporary Feminist Theories/Praxis', Feminist Theory , 2:1, April, pp 108-111, ISSN 1464-7001.
• 2002 'Visual Modernism: Virginia Woolf's "Portraits" and Photography', Woolf Studies Annual , 8, pp 90-104, ISBN 0-94447359-8.
• 2003 'Discovering Virginia', Virginia Woolf Bulletin , 13, May
• 2003 'Memory, Photography and Modernism: "the dead bodies and ruined houses" of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas', Signs , Winter, 28:2
• 2004 'Into the Millennium: Feminist Literary Criticism', Revista Canario de Estudios Ingleses, Special Issue, 48, pp 45-60.
• 2006 'The Stephen Sisters as Young Photographers', Canvas, April, 15, pp 1-7.
• 2007 'Beauty and Woolf', Feminist Theory, 7:2, pp 237-254.
• 2009 ‘Flush, or “Who Was the Woman in the Photograph?”’, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Fall/Winter, pp 13-14.
• 2010 The 1930s,Photography, and Virginia Woolf's Flush. Photography and Culture, 3:1, March, pp. 7-18.
• 2010 Editor Special Issue Virginia Woolf Miscellany 'Copyright and Intellectual Property', Spring, No. 77, 'Virginia Woolf, Copyright, Intellectual Property and Future Scholarship'.
• 2010 'Virginia Woolf and the Maternal', Studies in the Maternal, 3.
• 2011 'Autobiographical Interfaces: Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell', Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Special Issue Autobiography, Spring, No. 79, pp. 12-14.

Conference papers (international/national)

International since 2001

• 2002: Plenary Speaker 'Modernist Women and Cinema', Spanish Association for AngloAmerican Studies Annual Conference, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
• 2003: 'Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell as Photographers', Woolf in the Real World: 13 th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Smith College MA, USA, Invited - Panel Chair.
• 2003: Keynote Speaker 'My Own Ghost Met Me: Woolf's 1930s Photographs, Death and Freud's Acropolis', VII Jornadas de Estudios de la Mujer, Universidade Madrid.
• 2004 Plenary 'Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell as Photographers' at Picturing Women, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia USA
• 2005 Plenary 'Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, and the Maternal' at Intertextual Dialogues, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• 2008: Panel Chair and speaker ‘Virginia Woolf and the Royal Academy’, Woolf Editing/Editing Woolf, University of Denver, USA.
• 2009: Invited speaker ‘Modernist Women: Feminism and Cinema’ and ‘Virginia Woolf and Photography’, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Poland.
• 2010: Plenary speaker ‘Virginia Woolf and Aesthetics’, Between the Aesthetical and the Political, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
• 2010: Invited speaker ‘Modernist Women, Cinema and Postmodern Orlando’ and ‘British Women Postcolonial Writers’, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
• 2012: Invited lecture tour of the Netherlands (sponsored by the Netherlands-England Society) to Breda, Eindhoven, Deventer, Hengelo, Utrecht
• 2012: Plenary speaker 'Multidisciplinary Woolf/Multiple Woolfs?', Multidisciplinary Woolf, the Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, University of Saskatoon, Canada

National since 2001

• 2001: 'Visual Modernism: Virginia Woolf's 'Portraits', "Voyages Out, Voyages Home", Eleventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Bangor.
• 2002 'Virginia Woolf,Photography and Modernism', The Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, Virginia Woolf Society.
• 2002 'Memory and the Matrixial', Psychoanalysis and History Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
• 2003: 'Modernist Women, Feminism and Cinema', Women's Studies Centre, University of York, Invited speaker.
• 2004: Plenary Speaker 14 th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf 'Back to Bloomsbury': 'Woolf's 1930s Photographs and Freud'.
  > Read about the14th Annual International Conference
• 2004 'Gender and Modernism' at Women and Others: A Decade of Women's Studies, University of Hull.
• 2004: 'Memory and Photography', Westminster University Colloquium.
• 2005: Keynote 'Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf and the Maternal at Gender and Generation: European Women's Writing, University of Bath
• 2005: Invited speaker inauguration of the Durham University Centre of Advanced Photographic Studies.
  > Read about the event
• 2006: 'Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell as Photographers', National Portrait Gallery.
• 2006: 'Orlando' The Women's Library.
• 2006: 'The Lives and Photographs of Artists: Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell', Tate Britain.
• 2006: 'Memory Holes or Heterotopias', Woolfian Boundaries: 16th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Birmingham.
• 2006: 'Virginia Woolf as Photographer', The Women's Library.
• 2007: Keynote speaker 'I and Not-I', Women and Visual Culture, University of Oxford.
  > Read about Women Writers and Visual Culture
• 2007: 'Memory Holes or Heterotopias?', University of Dundee
• 2007: 'Virginia Woolf, Orlando and Photography', St. John's College, York.
• 2007: 'Memory Holes or Heterotopias?', Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.
• 2007: Invited speaker: ‘Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and Domestic Photography’, London Metropolitan University .
• 2008: Keynote speaker ‘Virginia Woolf and Visual Culture: Analogies, adoptions Abjection’, Modernism and Visual Culture, University of Oxford.
• 2008: Invited speaker, Festchrift for Diana Leonard, Goodenough College, London.
• 2008: Invited speaker, ‘Virginia Woolf’, Sissinghurst Castle, National Trust.
• 2009: keynote speaker ‘(Re)reading Woolf’, University of Essex.
• 2009: ‘Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, the Maternal and Photography’, M(O)therTrouble Conference, Birkbeck College, University of London.
• 2009: Invited speaker 'Virginia Woolf and Photography'. Northern Modernism Research Seminar, University of Northumbria.
• 2010: ‘Virginia Woolf and the Arts’, Symposium to launch The EdinburghCompanion To Virginia Woolf and the Arts, (ed.) Maggie Humm, Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses
• 2010: 'Virginia Woolf and the Arts', Edinburgh International Festival.
• 2010: 'Virginia Woolf, Domestic Photography, and Writing', the Photographers' Gallery London.
• 2010: 'Roger Fry, Gertrude Stein, Post-Impressionism and John Maynard Keynes in 1910', December 1910 Centenary Conference on Modernism, University of Glasgow.
• 2011: 'Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and Domestic Photography', invited talk University College Campus, Suffolk
• 2011: 'Contradictions in Autobiography: Virginia Woolf's Writings on Art', Contradictory Woolf, the Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Glasgow.

Key publications pre 2001:

• 1986 Feminist Criticism:Womebn as Contemporary Critics, Harvester Wheatsheaf.
• 1991 Border Traffic: Strategies of Contemporary Women Writers, Manchester University Press
• 1992 Feminisms, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Columbia University Press
• 1994 A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism, Harvester Wheatsheaf and Prentice Hall
• 1995 The Dictionary of Feminist Theory , Harvester Wheatsheaf/Ohio State University Press
• 1995 Practising Feminist Criticism , Harvester Wheatsheaf
• 1997 Feminism and Film, Edinburgh University Press 

• ROAR Institutional Repository see: http://dspace.uel.ac.uk/jspui/simplesearch?query=Maggie+Humm&submit=Go

Editorships/panel committee memberships

• Editor, 'The History and Philosophy of Feminism Section' of The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women , Chief Editors C. Kramarae and D. Spender, Routledge NY.
• Advisory Editor: Falmer Press Series: Gender and Society; Taylor and Francis Series: Gender and Higher Education; Feminist Theory, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 
• 2001 Panel Member Research Assessment Exercise
• 2002 External Examiner Ph. D, University of Kent
• 2003 External Examiner MA University of Kent
• 2004-2007 External Examiner M. Phil in Women's Studies Trinity College Dublin
• 2007-2010 External Examiner MA Women’s Studies University of York
• 2006-2010 AHRC Peer Review College
• 2003 to present: Co-organiser Modernism Research Seminar, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.
• 2008- 2010 Co-Director Centre for Cultural Studies Research, UEL

Awards

• 1990: The Dictionary of Feminist Theory was named CHOICE `Outstanding Academic Book for 1990' by the American Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Life Membership of the FWSA Association awarded 2008.

Translations and Reprints

• The Dictionary of Feminist Theory into Polish, Korean and Japanese
• Feminisms into Urdu.
• A Reader's Guide to Feminist Literary Criticism into Turkish
• Chapter ‘Feminist Literary Theory’ from Feminist Theories being translated into Arabic.
• Chapter from Feminist Criticism reprinted in S.Jackson et al Women's Studies: A Reader , Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, 1993.
• Chapter from Border Traffic reprinted in Letteratura e femminismo: la critica femminista Anglo-Amercana: scuola, teorie, modelli (eds) M.T.Chialant and E.Rao, liguori, Naples, 2000.