Susan Sellers

Biography

Susan Sellers studied in London and Paris, receiving a DEA from the Sorbonne and a PhD from the University of London. While in Paris she worked closely with leading French feminist writers, particularly Hélène Cixous. She has written several books including Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Writing and Hélène Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography and Love. In 2008 she published Vanessa and Virginia, a fictional account of the sibling rivalry between Virginia Woolf and the painter Vanessa Bell, which has been translated into numerous languages. She is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of Woolf's writing and volume editor of Woolf's novel The Waves.

Research Interest

Susan co-directs the MLitt in Women, Writing and Gender and the MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture and would be interested in receiving applications for doctoral research in the general areas of women's literary fiction (particularly women's rewritings of canonical texts) and creative writing. She is especially interested in the processes of writing and in writers' drafts, notebooks and diaries.