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Jean Mills is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated magna cum laude as a Mary Lyon Scholar. She specializes in Woolf Studies, Modernism, feminist theory, 20th Century British and Irish literature, Peace Studies, intellectual history, and transatlantic cultural studies. Her research explores intersections of gender, sexuality, class, and culture.
Her most notable work includes the book Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (2014), which examines Woolf’s intellectual and literary relationships. Recent publications include essays on Woolf’s political themes, pacifism, and modernist networks. She has received the Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.
Her current research project focuses on 1924 as a pivotal year in Virginia Woolf’s life and work. She has contributed to interdisciplinary studies, such as linking Gertrude Stein’s work to rap music and analyzing women’s literature of the 1920s–30s.
Awards include the Florence Howe Award, and her work frequently appears in major university presses like Cambridge and Ohio State University Press.
