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Maggie Humm

Maggie Humm

Position: Professor and Associate Research Leader

Location: Docklands Campus, Room: EB.2.31

Telephone: 0208 223 2749

Contact address:

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of East London
Docklands Campus
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD

Brief biography:

Maggie Humm is a Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London and Co-Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR). 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, and Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, Rutgers University Press and the Tate, 2006 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, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and elsewhere. She is currently editing The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, EUP (2010).

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

Qualifications:

  • 1966 BA Honours Part 1, Class 2 English and American Studies, University of East Anglia
  • 1980 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.

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Activities/responsible for:

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Teaching:

Modules:

  • MA Dissertation Module
  • Graduate School Staff Workshops
  • PhD Seminars years 1-3
  • Co-ordinator AHRC PhD Seminars
  • Co-ordinator PhD Seminars Year 2
  • Co-ordinator PhD Research Seminars

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Research / Publications:

Current research:

All publications post 2001:

Grants

  • 2001 British Academy Small Grant £1,286
  • 2002 AHRB Research Leave Grant £17,308
  • 2003 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant £300
  • 2004 British Academy Small Grant £5,590 and Overseas Conference Grant £365
  • 2005 AHRC Research Leave Grant £15,500
  • 2008 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant £800

PhD supervision

  • Ms Susan Jackson 'Differently Academic: Women in Higher Education'. PhD awarded 2001.
  • Mr. A. Pettin 'The Grotesque in American Film', PhD, FT since 2001.
  • Ms. K. Cross 'Framing the Subject: Amateur Photography'. PhD awarded 2007.
  • Ms. H. Jacey 'Feminist Scriptwriting and Modernism' PhD PT.
  • Ms Vesna Milanovic 'Rethinking Woyzeck Through Marie's Gaze', PhD completed 2007.
  • Ms Laura Schwartz 'Religion and Owenite Feminism'. PhD FT. Awarded 2008.
  • Ms Laura Junka 'Film and photography', FT from 2006.
  • Ms. Susan Allen.
  • Mr. Jamie Hakim.

Books

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Research archive:

Key publications pre 2001:

  • 1997 Feminism and Film , Edinburgh University Press
  • 1995 The Dictionary of Feminist Theory , Harvester Wheatsheaf/Ohio State University Press
  • 1995 Practising Feminist Criticism , Harvester Wheatsheaf
  • 1992 Feminisms , Harvester Wheatsheaf/Columbia University Press
  • 1991 Border Traffic: Strategies of Contemporary Women Writers , Manchester University Press
  • ROAR Institutional Repository see: http://dspace.uel.ac.uk/jspui/simplesearch?query=Maggie+Humm&submit=Go

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Other scholarly activities:

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
  • 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 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.
  • 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.

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