About Maria DiBattista

Maria DiBattista is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, and has written extensively on modern literature, popular and pulp fiction, and film. Her books include Virginia Woolf: The Fables of Anon, First Love: The Affections of Modern Fiction, which has two central chapters on Lawrence, Fast Talking Dames, Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography and Novel Characters: A Genealogy. She is presently co-writing a book with Deborah Nord on Women Novelists on and Public Sphere and, with Emily Wittman, is editing the Cambridge Companion to Autobiography and a more specialized collection of essays, Modernist Autobiography.