Joanna Scutts

Professor Scutts is a cultural historian and literary critic, specializing in the literature and lives of women in the early 20th century. She is the author of Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism (2022) and The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It (2017). Her book reviews and literary journalism have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Paris Review, and the Times Literary Supplement, among many others, and she is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. Her current book projects include a collection of profiles of overlooked women writers, and a history of American women in Paris from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.