Patricia MacCormack is a Professor in English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She has published extensively on Guattari, Blanchot, Serres, Irigaray, queer theory, teratology, body modification, posthuman theory, animal rights, and horror films. Fall 2013 she was a visiting Leverhulme Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2][3]
Published works
Books
Post-Human Ethics. Ashgate 2012.
Edited anthology, The Animal Catalyst. Bloomsbury. 2014.
'Posthuman Teratologies', in Mittman, Asa. The Ashgate Guide to Monstrosity. Basingstoke: Ashgate. 2011.
'Multi-Dimensional Modifications', in Hughes, Joe. Deleuze and the Body. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2011
'Encounters of Ecstasy', in Beckman, Frida. Deleuze and Sex. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2011
'Kristeva and Cinema' In Felicity Coleman, ed. Film Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers. London: Acumen 2009.
'Cinemasochism: Time, Space and Submission.' In D.N. Rodowick, ed. The Afterimage of Gilles Deleuze's Film Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2009.
'Vitalistic FeminEthics' In Colebrook, Claire and Braidotti, Rosi, eds. Deleuze and Law. London: Polity. 2009.
'Unnatural Alliances' In Chrysanthi Niggiani, ed. Deleuze and Queer Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. 2009
'Necrosexuality' In Noreen Giffney, ed. Queering the Non/Human. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008.
'Zombies without Organs: Gender, Flesh and Fissure', in Sean McIntosh and Marc Leverette, eds. Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead. Plymouth: Scarecrow. 2008.
'Castle of Terror', 'Grapes of Death' and 'Beyond the Darkness', in Steven Jay Schneider, ed. 100 European Horror Films. London: BFI, 2007.
'Necrosexuality, Perversion and Jouissance: The Experimental Desires of Buttgereit's NekRomantik Films.' In Steffen Hantke, ed. Caligari's Heirs: Modern German Horror Cinema, Plymouth: Scarecrow 2007.
'Masochistic Cinesexuality'. In Mathijs, E. and Mendik, X. Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945, London: Wallflower and New York: Columbia UP. 2004
'Gendered Authors, Gendered Learning.' In Williams, Mary Rose and Backlund, Phil. Readings in Gendered Context. Belmont, Ca: Thomson Wadsworth. 2003: 247-256
'Ancient Classical World.' In Eleanor B. Amico, ed. The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1998: 23-24.
Selected conference papers and guest lectures
'Ecosophical Venus'. Venus as Muse. University of Cologne. January 2012. Keynote speaker.
'Monstrous Art'. Goldsmith's University. January 2012. Paid lecture.
'A-Human Art'. The Association of the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP) 3. University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 2011.
'Art and Queer Monsters'. Public lecture sponsored and funded by Cranbrook Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan. October 2011.
'Angelic Monsters: Movement in Mucus.' Public lecture sponsored and funded by Wayne State University Detroit. October 2011.
'Movement without time' Bodies in Movement. University of Edinburgh. May 2011. Keynote speaker.
'Toward a Philosophy of Demonology: Continental Philosophy and the Occult.' Treadwell's public lecture. London. April 2011. Sold out.
'Art as Inhuman Ecstasy' Public lecture sponsored and funded by the University of California Santa Barbara. April 2011.
'Gracious Parasites.' Human-Animal/Humain-Animal. University of San Francisco. April 2011.
'Mucosal Monsters' Annual inaugural 'Doing Gender' lecture, as part of Carnal Aesthetics conference. University of Utrecht Netherlands. March 2011. Keynote speaker.
'Cinesexuality Now'. Body, Theory, Media. University of Mainz Germany. November 2010. Keynote speaker.
RaRa New Feminist Radicalisations. Loughborough. November 2010. Paid interviewed speaker
Gonda Film Project. Whitechapel Gallery and Film London funded workshop. October 2010. Paid speaker/consultant.
Abandon Normal Devices Festival of Cinema and Digital Culture. Manchester. October 2010. Paid interviewed speaker
'FutureSex: Queer Future Film Theory' BFI. Keynote Speaker. July 2010.
'Encounters of Ecstasy'. 3rd International Deleuze Conference. University of Amsterdam, July 2010. Plenary speaker.
'Schizoanalysis and Visual Culture'. University of Cardiff, June 2010. Keynote Speaker.
Occult Cinesexuality, series of 4 public lectures sponsored and held by Treadwell's London. January–February 2010. (All lectures sold out).
Aesthetics as Ecstasy. 2nd International Deleuze Conference. Cologne, September 2009. Plenary speaker.
'Uncanny Matrixiality' Symposium on Bracha Ettinger University College Dublin, April 2009. Invited speaker.
'Deleuze and Demonology'. Reinventing the Renaissance Conference, ARU, November 2009.
'Masochism and Aesthetic Encounters.' Visual Culture Reconsidered University of Limerick, October 2009. Keynote speaker.
'Cinematic Evocations: Occultism in Cinema' Treadwell's Lecture Series. Treadwell's, London. October 2009.
Other academic writings
'Great Directors: Antonio Margheriti' Senses of Cinema Great Directors. September 2004.
'Looking Away to See: Frazer Lee's Duty of Care Films'. Senses of Cinema Issue 32, July 2004.
'Great Directors: Lucio Fulci' Senses of Cinema Great Directors. May 2004.
Editor, Senses of Cinema Special Issue: Perversion Issue 30, Jan-Mar 2004.
Patricia Pisters The Matrix of Visual Culture Book Review Senses of Cinema Issue 29. December 2003
'Phantasmatic Fissures: Spider' Senses of Cinema Issue 27. Aug 2003
'Italian perversions: Antonio Margheriti and Paul Morrissey's Il mostro é in Tavola, Barone Frankenstein (Flesh for Frankenstein, 1974) and Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete! (Blood for Dracula, 1974)'. Kinoeye Vol. 3 Issue 8. July 2003.
'Christopher Lee: His Italian Journeys into Perversion' Senses of Cinema. Issue 24. January 2003.
'Barbara Steele's Ephemeral Skin: Feminism, Fetishism and Film.' Senses of Cinema. Issue 22. October 2002.
Fiction
Sighs Read By Dawn III London: Beautiful Books. 2008
The Bloom of Decay Read By Dawn I London: Beautiful Books. 2006 [8][9][10]
