March 1, 2001

Jane Marcus, professor of English at the City University of New York, lectured in the Villard Room on “A Very Fine Negress: Race in a Room of One’s Own.” Professor Marcus’s work focused on feminist critiques of modernist literature, particularly that of Virginia Wolff. She helped found women’s studies departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Texas. The author of Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy (1987), Professor Marcus published Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race in 2004.