Maria DiBattista, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English at Princeton University, has written extensively on modern literature and film. Her books include Fast Talking Dames, a study of American film comedy of the thirties and forties, Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography, and Novel Characters: A Genealogy. She is also the coeditor of The Cambridge Guide to Autobiography and Modernism and Autobiography. Her latest work, co-authored with Deborah Nord, is At Home in the World: Women Writers, Public Lives, a study of women’s political writings from Jane Austen to the present day.