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Joanna Scutts

Joanna Scutts
Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, historian, and author of The Extra Woman and Hotbed. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and the Paris Review series “Feminize Your Canon.” She holds a PhD from Columbia University. She lives in New York.


Secret, Unruly, and Progressive: The History of the Heterodoxy Women’s Club

Joanna Scutts on the Early Days of the Feminist Social Club in Early 1900s New York
June 10, 2022  By Joanna Scutts
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Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers

Exhumations and Revelations, from Zora Neale Hurston
to Bette Howland
May 13, 2019  By Joanna Scutts
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Virginia and Leonard Woolf Remember Their War Dead

On One of Hogarth Press' Earliest Printings
November 12, 2018  By Joanna Scutts
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How Forgotten Trailblazer Marjorie Hillis Helped Women Live Alone

Joanna Scutts on the Moment She Discovered the Original "Extra Woman"
November 20, 2017  By Joanna Scutts
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30 Books in 30 Days: Joanna Scutts on Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk

COUNTING DOWN THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS FINALISTS
March 8, 2016  By Joanna Scutts
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Immigration, Dislocation, and the Search for Home

Christos Tsiolkas: “I am proof that multiculturalism is worth defending.”
October 2, 2015  By Joanna Scutts
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