Patricia Duncker

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Patricia Duncker (born 29 June 1951) is a British novelist and academic.

Academic career

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, 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..

Bibliography

Fiction

Hallucinating Foucault (novel, 1996) (McKitterick Prize, 1997)
James Miranda Barry (novel, 1999), published in the USA 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)

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.
"Mary Shelley's Afterlives: Biography and Invention", Women: A Cultural Review, Special Issue "Hystorical Fictions" [sic], Vol.15, No.2 (Summer 2004) 230–249.
"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)
"Writer's Writer: Patricia Duncker on George Eliot", New Welsh Review No.74 (Winter 2006) 93–95.

References

Footnotes

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 19742699 LCCN: nr91002247 ISNI: 0000 0001 1042 3582 GND: 123561264 BNF: cb122968547

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Name	Duncker
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Short description	British writer and academic
Date of birth	29 June 1951
Place of birth	Jamaica
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