Patricia Waugh
Professor Patricia Waugh | |
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| Born | 25th April 1956 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Occupation | Professor of English |
| Organization | Durham University |
| Known for | work on literary theory, metafiction, and postmodernism |
| Notable work | Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction |
Patricia Waugh (born 25th April 1956) is a literary critic and Professor of English Literature at Durham University. She is a leading specialist in modernist and post-modernist literature, post-modernist theory and feminist theory, intellectual history, and postwar fiction and its political contexts.[1] Along with Linda Hutcheon, Waugh is notable as one of the first critics to work on metafiction and, in particular, for her influential 1984 study, Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.[2][3]
Waugh wrote her PhD thesis at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of David Lodge. She joined the Department of English Studies at Durham University in 1989, became a Professor in 1997, and was Head of the Department of English Studies between 2005 and 2008.
In 2014, Waugh gave the first lecture, entitled "Fiction as Therapy: Towards a Neo-Phenomenological Theory of the Novel", in the British Academy's Lecture on the Novel in English series.[4]
In 2016 she became a Fellow of the British Academy.[5]
Published works
- Blackwell History of British Fiction: 1945-present (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
- Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Routledge, 1984)
- Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (London: Edward Arnold, 1997)
- The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Backgrounds, 1960-1990 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995)
- Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (Oxford: Routledge, 1989)
Edited works
- Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
- With Philip Rice, Modern Literary Theory: A Reader (New York: Hodder Arnold, 2001)
- With David Fuller, The Arts and Science of Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
References
- ^ https://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/academicstaff/?id=281
- ^ Holmesland, Oddvar (1985-01-01). "Patricia Waugh: Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction". American Studies in Scandinavia. 17 (2): 94–96. ISSN 0044-8060.
- ^ Nadel, Alan (1985-01-01). "Fictional Space in the Modernist and Postmodernist American Novel, and: Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction, and: The Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation, and: IN FORM: Digressions on the Act of Fiction (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 31 (4): 759–763. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.1321. ISSN 1080-658X.
- ^ http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Fiction_as_Therapy.cfm
- ^ http://hearingthevoice.org/2016/07/15/two-new-british-academy-fellows-from-hearing-the-voice/