RUTH THRUSH is a UK-based researcher with an interest in literary studies and feminist philosophy.
Ruth received her BA in English Literature and Language and her MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, both from the University of Oxford, where she is currently a DPhil candidate, supported by an AHRC studentship, and is working on a project exploring the relationship between beauty and socialism at the fin de siècle. Ruth is particularly interested in late Victorian, early modernist, and avant-garde literature, the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, Marxist feminisms, and dance theory and practice in the early twentieth century. Ruth is a contributor to Understanding Beauvoir, Understanding Modernism (ed. Pauline Henry-Tierney; Bloomsbury, 2025), with a chapter that reads Simone de Beauvoir’s early ethical work alongside Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. Beside her research interests, Ruth also performs as a freelance ‘cellist and writes poems.