Patricia Duncker
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Patricia Duncker is a British novelist and academic.
, 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
.
She has taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
and was Professor of Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, working with the novelists Andrew Cowan and her fellow Professor Michele Roberts. In January 2007, she was appointed Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester, where she teaches in the Department of English and American Studies.http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/.
Academic career
Born in Kingston, JamaicaKingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
, Duncker attended Bedales school in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at Newnham College, Cambridge
Newnham College, Cambridge
Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1871 by Henry Sidgwick, and was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College...
. She earned a doctorate from St Hugh's College, Oxford
St Hugh's College, Oxford
St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a fourteen and a half acre site on St Margaret's Road, to the North of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 as a women's college, and accepted its first male students in its centenary year in 1986...
.
She has taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. As of late 2006, the university had over 12,000 students spread across seventeen academic departments.The university was founded in 1872 as...
and was Professor of Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, working with the novelists Andrew Cowan and her fellow Professor Michele Roberts. In January 2007, she was appointed Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester, where she teaches in the Department of English and American Studies.http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/.
Fiction
- Hallucinating FoucaultHallucinating FoucaultHallucinating Foucault is a 1996 novel by Patricia Duncker.-Plot introduction:A postgraduate student goes to France to meet the object of his thesis, Paul Michel.-Plot summary:...
(novel, 1996) (McKitterick PrizeMcKitterick PrizeThe McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of The Political Quarterly but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel by...
, 1997) - James Miranda Barry (novel, 1999), published in the USA as "The Doctor"
- The Deadly Space Between (novel, 2002)
- Miss Webster and ChérifMiss Webster and ChérifMiss Webster and Chérif is a novel by Patricia Duncker first published in 2006 about a fearless British woman living in the countryside who radically changes her life when she is already approaching 70 and after she has been an old age pensioner for several years...
(novel, 2006) - The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge (novel, 2009)
- 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'sEmily BrontëEmily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother...
VilletteVillette (novel)Villette is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance...
and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", Theorising Muriel SparkMuriel SparkDame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...
: Gender, Race Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, ed. Martin McQuillan (2002) 67–77. - "Mary ShelleyMary ShelleyMary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
's Afterlives: Biography and Invention", Women: A Cultural Review, Special Issue "Hystorical Fictions" [sic], Vol.15, No.2 (Summer 2004) 230–249. - "Katherine MansfieldKatherine MansfieldKathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and...
: The Writer of the Submerged World", Interrupted Lives in Literature, ed. Andrew MotionAndrew MotionSir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...
(2004), 53–65. - Introduction to the new PenguinPenguin BooksPenguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
edition and new translation by Helen Constantine of Théophile GautierThéophile GautierPierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic....
's Mademoiselle de Maupin (2005) - "Writer's Writer: Patricia Duncker on George EliotGeorge EliotMary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era...
", New Welsh ReviewNew Welsh Review-History:Founded in 1988 as successor to The Welsh Review , Dock Leaves, and The Anglo-Welsh Review , New Welsh Review is Wales’s foremost literary magazine in English...
No.74 (Winter 2006) 93–95.