Dr. Patricia Moran
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in English
- Course Director: MA in English
Academic and Professional Background
- 1980: B.A. in English, College of William and Mary
- 1988: Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley
- 1988-95: Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Davis
- 1995-2005: Associate Professor of English, University of California, Davis
- 2005-2008: Professor of English, University of California, Davis
- 2008-present: Lecturer in English, University of Limerick
Research Interests
- Literary Theory, with special emphasis on psychoanalytic, feminist, and gender theory
- 19th and 20th Century Women Writers
- 20th Century British Writers
- Food Studies
Research Supervision
I have supervised numerous Ph.D. and M.A. theses. Topics have included Virginia Woolf and Victorian fiction; the food writing of Elizabeth David and M. F. K. Fisher; representations of the city in Modernist fiction; relational dynamics in Charlotte Brontë and Jean Rhys; and representations of home in the work of post-colonial women writers. I am currently supervising three dissertations: the mystical tradition in late 19th- and early 20th-century British women’s writing; 20th-century representations of the drowned woman in film and fiction; and new narratological models in hypertext and postmodern fiction.
Selected Publications
2007: The Aesthetics of Trauma in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys (Palgrave Macmillan)
2003: editor, with Tamar Heller, Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in 19th- and 20th-Century Women’s Writing (SUNY Press)
1996: Word of Mouth: Body/Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf (University of Virginia Press)