Roberta Rubenstein
Roberta Rubenstein recently retired as emerita professor from the Department of Literature at American University after a distinguished teaching career. Her scholarly interests include fiction by modernist and contemporary women writers — Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood, among others — as well as literature of the fantastic and 19th-century Russian literature. She is the author of five scholarly books including, most recently, Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View and Literary Half-Lives: Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and Roman à Clef. Her monograph, Reminiscences of Leonard Woolf, describes her friendship with Virginia Woolf’s husband while she was writing her doctoral dissertation on the writer at University of London.
9 entries by Roberta Rubenstein
Talland House
By Maggie Humm
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This homage to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is a wonderful tale in its own right.
Talland House: A Novel
By Maggie Humm
This homage to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is a wonderful tale in its own right.
Grief Cottage: A Novel
By Gail Godwin
This powerful story about one boy’s loss reflects on what it means to be haunted.
The Heart Goes Last: A Novel
By Margaret Atwood
This powerhouse of a novel is stuffed with ideas on economic hardship, sex, the surveillance state, and much, much more.
Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel
By Priya Parmar
A fascinating, fictionalized look at Virginia Woolf's lesser-known — but equally talented — sibling.
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
By Margaret Atwood
A brilliant collection that playfully reveals the darker shadings of human experience.
