Sharon Marcus
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Contents
Country
United States
Birth - Death
Occupation
Academic, Writer
Notable Achievements
Lambda Literary Award
Description
Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Colombia University in New York. Specializes in nineteenth-century British and French culture. Her scholarship analyzes the cultural assignment of value in domains as diverse as architecture, social relationships, literary criticism, and performance culture. Books include 'Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London' (1999); 'Between Women: Marriage, Desire, and Friendship in Victorian England' (2007, Lambda Literary Award); and 'The Drama of Celebrity' (2019). Co-founded Public Books, an online magazine.
