Loretta Stec

Professor Loretta Stec is a scholar of 20th-century English literature at San Francisco State University. She specializes in modernisms, southern African literature, expatriate writers in Paris, and feminist studies. Her teaching includes courses on Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and postcolonial African fiction, integrating feminist theory and cosmopolitan literary contexts. She serves on the Advisory Board of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 and reviews for Twentieth-Century Literature.

• PhD from Rutgers University
• Women’s Studies Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
• Former Interim Chair of Women’s Studies Department at SFSU (2004, 2006-2007)

Her research spans women’s journalism in the interwar period, African narratives by British authors, and pacifist writers. Recent work focuses on Claude McKay and canonical African writers. She has held fellowships at Mt. Holyoke College’s Five College Women’s Studies Research Center.