Marina MacKay is the author of Modernism and World War II (2007), which reconstructs the political and aesthetic contexts of mid-century writing by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Rebecca West, Henry Green, and Evelyn Waugh in order to describe how the war transformed literary modernism in England. She has co-edited (with Lyndsey Stonebridge) a collection of essays, British Fiction After Modernism (2007), on the novel between 1930 and 1970, and is also editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II (forthcoming 2008). Her most recent essays are published or forthcoming in ELH, MLQ, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, and the Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel. She is currently working on three books: Literary Character and State Power, a monograph on public crisis and fictional agency from the rise of the novel to the present; a study of the significance of old age to twentieth-century writing, provisionally titled Poetry of the Thing Outlived; and The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel. Other areas of longstanding interest include the construction and attrition of literary reputations, reportage and political writing, and the cultural history of citizenship.