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Professor Morag Shiach studied Drama and Philosophy at Glasgow University. She went on to study for her Masters in Communications at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She then completed her doctorate in English at the University of Cambridge, where she was supervised by Raymond Williams.

Her first academic appointment after completing her PhD was as lecturer for the English Department at Queen Mary College in 1987. She has been part the growth and success of that department, which has become the School of English and Drama. Shiach has been at the College throughout her career to date, and is currently Professor of Cultural History and Vice-Principal for Teaching and Learning.

Shiach has research interests in cultural history, modernism and feminism. She has completed a study of the complex relations between labour and selfhood in a range of literary, philosophical and political texts written between 1890 and 1930. She is also editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel. Other research projects include work on female modernists and their relations to the domestic interior, and a major project on language reform in the early years of the twentieth century.

She has published numerous books and articles, and has been invited as guest lecturer across the UK and internationally.

Shiach has acted at Project Director of the Women at Queen Mary Project.