24 Women literary historians

Judith Ruth Buchanan, Professor of Literature and Film, is both a Shakespearean and a film scholar. She is Master of St Peter's College, Oxford and a member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. She took up her appointment at St Peter's College, Oxford on 1 October 2019, succeeding Mark Damazer. She is both an academic and a creative practitioner and is Director of Silents Now. Through Silents Now she brings little-known works of silent cinema to contemporary audiences, working in collaboration with actors, musicians and dancers. She co-adapted, and acted as Shakespeare advisor to, the British feature film Macbeth directed by Kit Monkman (2018). She co-founded the York International Shakespeare Festival. She has provided expert voice-overs for silent cinema DVD releases for the British Film Institute and the Thanhouser Film Corporation. She sits, as a government appointment, on the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, of the Elsinore Shakespeare Research Centre and of the global Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. At the University of Oxford she chairs the Board of the Cameron Mackintosh Drama Fund and the Electoral Board for the Cameron Mackintosh Distinguished Visiting Professor of Drama.

Jenni Calder is a Scottish literary historian, and arts establishment figure. She was formerly married to Angus Calder, and is the daughter of David Daiches.

Ruxandra-Mihaela Cesereanu or Ruxandra-Mihaela Braga is a Romanian poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and literary critic. Also known as a journalist, academic, literary historian and film critic, Cesereanu holds a teaching position at tha Babeş-Bolyai University (UBB), and is an editor for the magazine Steaua in Cluj-Napoca.

Paula da Cunha Corrêa is an associate professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is known for her work on Archilochus and Greek Lyric Poetry.

Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg was a major Soviet literary critic and historian and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad.

Lady Selina Shirley Hastings is a British journalist, author and biographer.

Rakhshanda Jalil is a well-known Indian writer, critic and literary historian. She is best known for much-acclaimed book on Delhi's lesser-known monuments called Invisible City: The hidden Monuments of India and a well-received collection of short stories, called Release & Other Stories. Her PhD on the Progressive Writers' Movement as Reflected in Urdu Literature has been published by Oxford University Press as Liking Progress, Loving Change (2014). Jalil runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture.

Zorica Jevremović is a Serbian theatre and video director, playwright, choreographer, intermedia theorist, literary historian and feminist. Her work also includes that of a dramaturge in alternative and informal theatrical and film groups.

Professor Charlotte Alice Bertha Eva Jolles was an Anglo-German literary scholar. She was an enthusiast and expert on the realist writer Theodor Fontane.

Rimma Vasilyevna Komina was a Soviet and Russian specialist in literary criticism, Doctor of Philology, professor (1985), dean of the philological faculty at Perm State University (1977–1982), the author of handbook "Contemporary Soviet literature" (1984), one of the key people in cultural life in Perm in the 1970s and 1980s. Her famous students are Jury Belikov and Boris Kondakov.

Professor Mary Dominica Legge, FBA, known as Dominica Legge, was a British scholar of the Anglo-Norman language.

Mariya Arkadevna Litovskaya, née Yeremeyeva is a Soviet and Russian philologist, literary critic, Professor of the Ural Federal University, one of the leading scholars at the Institute of History and Archaeology under the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a specialist in the fields of the 20th century Russian literature, sociology of literature and education, Ural literature.

Okky Puspa Madasari known as Okky Madasari is an Indonesian novelist, essayist and academic. She won an Indonesian major literary prize, the Khatulistiwa Literary Award, in 2012 for her third novel, Maryam. At the age of 28, she is the youngest ever to win this prestigious award. Her novels were shortlisted three years in a row by the award's judges.

Gabriela Matuszek-Stec is a Polish literary historian, essayist, critic and translator of German literature.

Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva was a Russian bard, poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary scientist.

Elena Georgievna Mestergazi is a Russian literary scholar who specializes in literary theory and 19th, 20th and 21st century Russian literature. She has also worked extensively on the life and oeuvre Vladimir Pecherin. As a doctor of philology (2008), she has authored monographs and journal articles and is an editor and member of editorial boards for several collections of domestic scientists' articles.

Ella Sterling Mighels was a California pioneer, author and literary historian. She was born in Mormon Island, California, but grew up in the town of Aurora, Esmeralda County, Nevada, leading her to adopt the pen name, "Aurora Esmeralda". She founded the California Literature Society (1913), and was named the "First Literary Historian of California" (1919). She died in San Francisco, and is buried in Oakland, California at the Mountain View Cemetery.

Mărgărita Miller-Verghy was a Romanian socialite and author, also known as a schoolteacher, journalist, critic and translator. A cultural animator, she hosted a literary club of Germanophile tendencies during the early part of World War I, and was later involved with Adela Xenopol in setting up feminist cultural venues. Her main contributions to Romanian literature include translations from English literature, a history of feminine writing in the national context, a novella series and an influential work of detective fiction. Many of her other works have been described as mediocre and didactic.

Edith Julia Morley, (1875–1964) was a literary scholar and activist. She was the main twentieth century editor of the works of Henry Crabb Robinson. She was a Professor of English Language at University College, Reading, now the University of Reading, from 1908 to 1940, making her the first woman to be appointed to a chair at a British university-level institution. She was a proud Socialist and member of the Fabian society, active in various suffrage campaigns, and received an OBE for her efforts coordinating Reading's refugee programme during the Second World War.

Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan was a Romanian literary critic, educationist, opinion journalist, poet and feminist militant. She spent her youth advocating socialism, and rallied with left-wing politics for the remainder of her life, primarily as a representative of Poporanist circles and personal friend of culture critic Garabet Ibrăileanu. Under Ibrăileanu's guidance, Sadoveanu wrote for Viața Românească review, where she tried to reconcile ethnic nationalism and traditionalism with aestheticism. As literary critic, she championed the recognition of Symbolism as an independent cultural phenomenon, and reviewed modern developments in English literature.

Catriona Jane Seth, FBA is a British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas. Since 2015, she has been Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Gonda Aline Hector Van Steen is a Belgian-American classical scholar and linguist, who specialises in ancient and modern Greek language and literature. Since 2018, she has been Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, the first woman to hold this position, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. She previously held the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, and taught at Cornell University and the University of Arizona. She has also served as the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association (2012–2014).

Judit Vihar is a Hungarian literary historian, Japanologist, professor emerita, translator, haiku poet and head of The Hungary–Japan Friendship Society. She has been active in the relationship between Japan and Hungary for decades. She is fluent in Hungarian, Japanese, Russian and Bulgarian.

Larissa Ilinichna Volpert was a Soviet chess Woman Grandmaster and Russian and Estonian philologist. She was a three time Soviet women's chess champion.