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Professor Patricia Moran

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School of Communication & Creativity Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries

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About

Overview

Patricia joined City in 2016 as Programme Director of English. She brings to the position considerable experience in curricular development and programme administration.

Trained as a modernist with a specialism in women's literature, Patricia has taught a wide range of subjects over the years, including modules on 19th and 20th Century American and British literature, histories of the novel and the short story, and surveys and seminars on literary criticism.

Patricia's work is situated at the intersection of women's writing, psychology and embodiment. She has published extensively on women writers, including monographs and edited volumes on Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys. Recent publications include edited volumes on Jean Rhys and on women and shame.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, United States, Sep 1981 – Dec 1988
  • B.A. in English, College of William and Mary, United States, Jan 1976 – Dec 1979

Employment

  • Reader in English, City, University of London, Aug 2016 – present
  • Lecturer in English, University of Limerick, Jul 2008 – Aug 2016
  • Associate Professor of English, University of California, Davis, 1995 – 2005
  • Professor of English, University of California, Davis, Jul 1988 – Jul 2008
  • Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Davis, 1988 – 1995

Awards

  • University of California (2000) Distinguished Teaching Award
  • Pro Femina (1996) Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Postgraduate Students
  • UC Davis MURALS Program (Minority Undergraduate Leadership Project) Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Service

Publications

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Books (6)

  • Moran, (2018). Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-1821-8.
  • Moran, P. and Johnson, E. (Eds.), (2015). Jean Rhys: Twenty-first-century Approaches. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 1-4744-0219-4.
  • Johnson, E.L. and Moran, P. (2013). The Female Face of Shame. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00873-2.
  • Heller, T. and Moran, P. (2012). Scenes of the Apple Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-8652-8.
  • Moran, P. (2007). Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-60185-7.
  • Moran, P.L. (1996). Word of Mouth Body Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1675-0.

Chapters (12)

  • Moran, P. and Johnson, E. (2020). 'The Secret Gardens of Wide Sargasso Sea. In Savory, E. and Johnson, E. (Eds.), Wide Sargasso Sea Fifty Years On New York: Palgrave.
  • Moran, P. (2016). 'What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know': Woolf and Feminism in the 1920s. New Casebook on Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Moran, P. (2015). "the feelings are always mine": Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys's Fiction. In Johnson, E. and Moran, P. (Eds.), Jean Rhys: Twenty-first-century Approaches (pp. 190–208). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Moran, P. and Johnson, E. (2015). The Haunting of Jean Rhys. In Moran, P. and Johnson, E. (Eds.), Jean Rhys: Twenty-first-century Approaches (pp. 1–17). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-0219-4.
  • Moran, P. (2015). "the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey": Writing as Homeland in Katherine Mansfield. In Kimber, G. and Kascakova, J. (Eds.), Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe (pp. 202–218). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-42996-4.
  • Moran, P. (2013). "Bound and Gagged with Thread": Female Development and the Kunstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's Alberta Trilogy. In Moran, P. and Johnson, E. (Eds.), The Female Face of Shame (pp. 132–148). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00863-3.
  • Moran, P. (2007). Gunpowder Plots: Sexuality and Censorship in Woolf's Later Work. In Eberly, D., Henke, S. and Lilienfeld, J. (Eds.), Virginia Woolf and Trauma: Embodied Texts (pp. 179–203). New York: Pace University Press. ISBN 978-0-944473-79-5.
  • Moran, P. (2003). a stoveside, sinkside, personal perspective: Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Writing. Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in 19th and 20th Century Women's Writing (pp. 215–237). New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-5784-9.
  • Moran, P. and Heller, T. (2003). Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing. Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in 19th and 20th Century Women's Writing (pp. 1–42). New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-5784-9.
  • Moran, P. (2002). Gunpowder Plots: Narrative and Sexual Trauma in Virginia Woolf's Work. In Berman, J. (Ed.), Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds New York: Pace University Press. ISBN 978-0-944473-55-9.
  • Moran, P. (1997). "the cat is out of the bag and it is a Tom": Desmond MacCarthy and the Writing of A Room of One's Own. In Johnston, G. (Ed.), Essays on Transgressive Reading: Reading Over the Lines (pp. 35–55). New York: Edwin Mellen University Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-8577-8.
  • Moran, P. (1993). Finding the Hunger in Hysteria: Freud, Klein, Woolf. In Hussey, M. and Neverow-Turk, V. (Eds.), Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations (pp. 142–157). New York: Pace University Press. ISBN 978-0-944473-13-9.

Journal articles (8)

  • Moran, P. (2020). Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, by Joanna Johnson. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 94(3-4), pp. 351–352. doi:10.1163/22134360-09403038.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Moran, P. (2015). Shame, Subjectivity, and Self-Expression in Cora Sandel and Jean Rhys. Modernism/modernity, 22(4), pp. 713–734. doi:10.1353/mod.2015.0070.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Moran, P. (2014). "the sudden cheap mushroom growth of psycho analysis": Woolf and Mansfield Respond to Psychoanalysis. Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 86.
  • Moran, P. (2010). Aesthetics of Being: The Unfinished Memoirs of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys. Studies in the Maternal, 2(1). doi:10.16995/sim.100.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Moran, P. (2001). Cock‐a‐doodle‐Dum: Sexology anda room of one's own. Women's Studies, 30(4), pp. 477–498. doi:10.1080/00497878.2001.9979391.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Moran, P. (1998). The Flaw in the Centre: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf's Work. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 17(1), pp. 101–121.
  • Moran, P. (1992). Virginia Woolf and the Scene of Writing. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 38(1), pp. 81–100. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0327.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Moran, P. (1991). Unholy Meanings: Maternity, Creativity and Orality in Katherine Mansfield. Feminist Studies, 17(1), pp. 105–125.

Other (16)

  • Moran, P. (2014). Review, Elke d'Hoker, Mary Lavin. Foreword by Colm Toibin.
  • Moran, P. (2013). Review. Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill, with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen. Introductions by Hermione Lee and Mark Hussey. Afterword by Rita Charon, M.D.
  • Moran, P. (2012). Review essay. New scholarship on Katherine Mansfield.
  • Moran, P. (2011). Review. Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson, eds. Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays.
  • Moran, P. (2011). Review. Karen Lawrence, Techniques for Living: Fiction and Theory in the Work of Christine Brooke-Rose.
  • Moran, P. (2010). Review. Georgia Johnston, The Formation of Twentieth-Century Queer Autobiography: Reading Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein.
  • Moran, P. (2007). Review. Laura Doan and Jane Garrity, eds. Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women and National Discourse.
  • Moran, P. (2006). Review. Victoria Burrows, Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison; Anne B. Simpson, Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys.
  • Moran, P. (2005). Review. Margaret Scott, ed. The Katherine Mansfield Journals: Complete Edition.
  • Moran, P. (2004). Review. Suzanne Juhasz, A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis and Relationships between Women; Jo Malin and Victoria Boynton, eds. Herspace: Women, Writing and Solitude.
  • Moran, P. (2003). Review. Women's Writing and World War One (review of 4 books).
  • Moran, P. (2003). Review. Katherine Dalsimer, Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer.
  • Moran, P. (2003). Review. Janet Theophano, Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote.
  • Moran, P. (1996). Review. Laura Doyle, Bordering on the Body.
  • Moran, P. (1993). Encyclopedia entry. Elizabeth Tallent.
  • Moran, P. (1988). Review. Susan Rubin Suleiman, The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives.

Professional activities

Editorial activity

  • Member, Editorial Board of Woolf Studies Annual.

Events/conferences (31)

  • Illness as Re-vision: Exploring Woolf's Snowfield of the Mind. Institut Catholique de Paris (2013).
    Description: Conference sponsored by French Society for Modernist Studies on "Outlanding Virginia Woolf"
  • "the sudden cheap mushroom growth of psycho analysis": Woolf and Mansfield Respond to Psychoanalysis. Boston, Massachusetts (2013).
    Description: Modern Language Association Convention
  • Modernist Women Writers Respond to James Joyce. Trinity College, Dublin (2012).
    Description: International James Joyce Symposium
  • Shame and Female Development in Jean Rhys and Cora Sandel. University of Western Sydney, Australia (2012).
    Description: Conference on Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion
  • the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey: Terragraphica in Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys. Brunel University (2012).
    Description: Conference on Moving Modernisms
  • Bound and Gagged with Thread: Shame, Female Development and the Kunstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's Alberta Trilogy. University College, Cork (2012).
    Description: Conference: Feminisms--Activisms--Modernisms
  • the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey: Terragraphica in Katherine Mansfield's Writing. Catholic University, Ruzomberkok, Slovakia (2012).
    Description: Conference: Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe
  • Katherine Mansfield's Little Women. Cambridge University (2011).
    Description: Conference: Katherine Mansfield
  • Respondent to Griselda Pollock. University of Limerick (2009).
    Description: Conference: Theories of the Image
  • "Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again": Ghost-Writing and the Phantoms of Literary Transmission in Wide Sargasso Sea. University College, Cork (2009).
    Description: Conference: Where Ghosts Live
  • Aesthetics of Being: The Unfinished Memoirs of Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf. Birkbeck College, London (2009).
    Description: Conference: (M)other Trouble: Contemporary Debates, Analyses and Representations of the Maternal
  • Framing the Relational: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Posthumous Memoir. University of Colorado (2008).
    Description: Conference: Virginia Woolf
  • Ghost-Writing in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (2007).
    Description: Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900
  • "She turned her head away, indifferent, and it broke my heart": Intersubjective Readings of the Empty Mirror in Jean Rhys's Fiction. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (2005).
    Description: Twentieth Century Literature Conference
  • "Why should I have felt shame then?" Sexual Trauma and Shame Affect in The Years. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (2004).
    Description: Twentieth Century Literature Conference: Special Session on Virginia Woolf and Trauma
  • Shame Affect in Virginia Woolf's The Years. University of California, Berkeley (2003).
    Description: Narrative: An International Conference
  • Shame Affect, Phantoms, Encryption: Models for Structuring Traumatic Memory in Virginia Woolf. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts (2003).
    Description: Thirteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference
  • Masochism as Aesthetic. Lake Arrowhead, California (2003).
    Description: University of California Interdisciplinary Consortium on Psychoanalysis
  • "What we must remember, what we would forget": Collective Memory, Traumatic Memory and the Genesis of War in Woolf's Between the Acts. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (2003).
    Description: Twentieth Century Literature Conference: Special Session on Virginia Woolf and War
  • Virginia Woolf and the Traumatic Genesis of "Inherited Dread". Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California (2002).
    Description: Twelfth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
  • "A doormat in a world of boots": Jean Rhys and the Masochistic Aesthetic. University of California, Davis (2002).
    Description: Conference: Undisciplined Bodies
  • Gunpowder Plots: Narrative and Sexual Trauma in Virginia Woolf's Work. University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (2000).
    Description: Ninth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
  • Cock-a-doodle-dum: Psychoanalysis and Woolf Studies. Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire (1997).
    Description: Seventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
  • Hymenal Rupture and the Female Imaginary in Virginia Woolf's Work. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (1996).
    Description: Twentieth Century Literature Conference
  • Hysteria as Narrative Structure in Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss". Monterey State College, Monterey, California (1993).
    Description: Young Rhetoricians Conference
  • Writing the Body of Virginia Woolf. Lincoln University, Lincoln, Missouri (1993).
    Description: Third Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
  • "Loving you is a man's job, baby": Matrophobia and Homophobia in The Silence of the Lambs. San Diego, California (1993).
    Description: Philological Association of the Pacific Coast
  • Finding the Hunger in Hysteria: Freud, Klein, Woolf. Southern Connecticutt State University (1992).
    Description: Second Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
  • Skeletons at the Liberal Feast: The Matrix of Hunger in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (1989).
    Description: Twentieth Century Literature Conference
  • Virginia Woolf and the Scene of Writing. Rhode Island College (1988).
    Description: Conference: Feminism and Discourse
  • "What a pity somebody does not play": Dyads, Triads, and Discords in Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss". Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois (1986).
    Description: Conference: Feminism and Psychoanalysis

Keynote lectures/speeches (11)

  • "there are always two deaths": Jean Rhys's Haunted Imaginary. University College, London (2016). Conference on Symbolisation
  • Ghostwriting Wide Sargasso Sea. Goldsmiths College, London (2016). Wide Sargasso Sea: A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration
  • The Strange Adventures of Ageing, or Ten Surprising Things I Learned about Ageing from Women Writers. University of Limerick (2015). Keynote, Conference on Women and Ageing
  • "the feelings are always mine": Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys. University of Geneva (2014). Invited speaker.
  • Mortified: Representing Women's Shame. National University of Ireland, Galway (2013). Invitation of NUI Galway Gender ARC
  • From Ghost to Ancestor: Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys and the Relational Legacy. St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri (2007). Invited speaker.
  • "Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again": "Venetian Tendencies" and Spectral Passions in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (2004). Invited speaker.
  • Cock-a-doodle-dum: Sexology and the Writing of A Room of One's Own. St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri (1998). Keynote speaker, 8th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
  • Word Salad: Women Writers and Eating Disorders. University of California, Davis (1996). Invited speaker, Eating Disorders Awareness Week
  • The Flaw in the Centre: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf's Work. University of California, Santa Barbara (1995). Invited speaker, PCMLA Women's Caucus
  • Freud, Symptomatic Discourse, and the Writing of Virginia Woolf. Willamette University, Willamette, Oregon (1995). Invited speaker

Radio programme

  • Jean Rhys. Commissioned by Open University

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