Patricia Waugh

Patricia Waugh (born 25th April 1956) is a literary critic and Professor of English Literature at Durham University. She is a leading specialist in modernist and post-modernist literature, post-modernist theory and feminist theory, intellectual history, and postwar fiction and its political contexts.^[1] Along with Linda Hutcheon, Waugh is notable as one of the first critics to work on metafiction and, in particular, for her influential 1984 study, Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.^[2][3]

Waugh wrote her PhD thesis at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of David Lodge. She joined the Department of English Studies at Durham University in 1989, became a Professor in 1997, and was Head of the Department of English Studies between 2005 and 2008.

In 2014, Waugh gave the first lecture, entitled "Fiction as Therapy: Towards a Neo-Phenomenological Theory of the Novel", in the British Academy's Lecture on the Novel in English series.^[4]

In 2016 she became a Fellow of the British Academy.^[5]

Published works

• Blackwell History of British Fiction: 1945-present (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
• Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Routledge, 1984)
• Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (London: Edward Arnold, 1997)
• The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Backgrounds, 1960-1990 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995)
• Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (Oxford: Routledge, 1989)

Edited works

• Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• With Philip Rice, Modern Literary Theory: A Reader (New York: Hodder Arnold, 2001)
• With David Fuller, The Arts and Science of Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)

References

External links

• Durham University staff profile