Maria DiBattista specializes in twentieth century literature and film, the European novel and narrative theory. Her books include Virginia Woolf: The Fables of Anon, First Love: The Affections of Modern Fiction (Chicago, 1991), as co-editor and contributor, High and Low Moderns: British Literature and Culture 1889-1939 (Oxford, 1997), Fast Talking Dames (Yale University Press, 2003) and, Imagining Virginia Woolf (Princeton University Press, 2008).