Patricia Duncker
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Patricia Marjory Duncker (born 29 June 1951)[1] is a British novelist and academic.
Academic career
Duncker was born in Kingston, Jamaica,[1] and named after her aunt Patricia Beer.[2] Duncker attended Bedales School in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She earned a doctorate from St Hugh's College, Oxford.[3]
She has taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1991–2002) and was Professor of Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, working with the novelists Andrew Cowan and her fellow Professor Michele Roberts. From 2007 to 2015 she worked as Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester.[3]
Bibliography
Fiction
- Hallucinating Foucault (novel, 1996) (McKitterick Prize, 1997)
- James Miranda Barry (novel, 1999), published in the United States as "The Doctor"
- The Deadly Space Between (novel, 2002)
- Miss Webster and Chérif (novel, 2006)
- The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge (novel, 2009)
- Sophie and the Sibyl : a Victorian romance (novel, 2015)
Short stories:
- 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", Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, ed. Martin McQuillan (2002) 67–77.
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- "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 of Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin (2005)
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References
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- ↑ A shadow at my shoulder: Interview with Patricia Duncker - The Guardian 12 August 2000
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External links
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- 20th-century British novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- People educated at Bedales School
- Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
- Academics of Aberystwyth University
- Academics of the University of East Anglia
- Academics of the University of Manchester