Professor Morag Shiach, MA (Glasgow) MA (McGill) PhD (Cambridge)
Professor of Cultural History, Vice-Principal and Executive Dean (Humanities and Social Sciences)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 3006
email: m.e.shiach@qmul.ac.uk
'Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930' by Morag Shiach
Morag Shiach’s research field is the cultural history of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Her recent publications include
The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel (2007) and
Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930 (2004), as well as a wide range of articles on aspects of British modernism. She has also published widely on the French novelist, essayist and playwright, Helene Cixous, including her monograph
Helene Cixous: A Politics of Writing. She edited
Feminism and Cultural Studies for the Oxford Readings in Feminism Series, and has also edited Virginia Woolf’s
A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas for the Oxford World’s Classics series. Her study,
Discourse on Popular Culture: class, gender and history in cultural analysis 1730 to the present was published by Polity Press and Stanford University press in 1989. She is interested in supervising research projects on the cultural history of modernism and twentieth-century culture.
