Patricia Waugh

Patricia Waugh is a literary critic and professor of English literature at Durham University. She is a specialist in modernist and post-modernist literature, post-modernist theory and feminist theory. She is recognised by some observers as a leading expert in post-modernist literary theory.

She joined the department of English studies at Durham University in 1989, became a professor in 1997, and was head of department between 2005 and 2008.

Published works

• Blackwell History of British Fiction: 1945-present (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
• Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Routledge, 2009)
• Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (London: Edward Arnold, 1997)
• 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)

External links

• Durham University staff profile