- Patricia Duncker
Patricia Duncker (born
June 29 ,1951 ) is a British novelist and academic.Academic career
Born in
Kingston, Jamaica , Duncker attended school inEngland and, after a period spent working inGermany , read English atNewnham College, Cambridge . She earned adoctorate fromSt Hugh's College, Oxford .She has taught at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth and theUniversity of East Anglia . In January 2007, she was appointed Professor of Contemporary Writing at theUniversity of Manchester . [Her colleagues at theManchester Centre for New Writing areMartin Amis ,Terry Eagleton ,M. J. Hyland , andGeoff Ryman [http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/] .]Bibliography
Fiction
*"
Hallucinating Foucault " (novel, 1996) (McKitterick Prize , 1997)
*"James Miranda Barry" (novel, 1999), published in the USA as "The Doctor"
*"The Deadly Space Between " (novel, 2002)
*"Miss Webster and Chérif " (novel, 2006)*"
Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees " (short stories, 1997)
*"Seven Tales of Sex and Death " (short stories, 2003)Non-fiction / academic (selection)
*"Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays" (2002)
*"The Suggestive Spectacle: Queer Passions in Brontë's "Villette" and "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ", "TheorisingMuriel Spark : Gender, Race Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis", ed. Martin McQuillan (2002) 67-77.
*"Mary Shelley 's Afterlives: Biography and Invention", "Women: A Cultural Review", Special Issue "Hystorical Fictions" [sic] , Vol.15, No.2 (Summer 2004) 230-249.
*"Katherine Mansfield : The Writer of the Submerged World", "Interrupted Lives in Literature", ed.Andrew Motion (2004), 53-65.
*Introduction to the new Penguin edition and new translation by Helen Constantine ofTheophile Gautier 's "Mademoiselle de Maupin " (2005)
*"Writer's Writer: Patricia Duncker onGeorge Eliot ", "New Welsh Review " No.74 (Winter 2006) 93-95.References
* [http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/patriciaduncker/ Duncker's page at the University of Manchester web site]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth33 Profile at www.contemporarywriters.com]
* [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?section=1&id=1073 Bloomsbury author information]
* [http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-matters-2-patricia-duncker.htm British Council web site]Footnotes
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