Research Interests
My research in recent years brings together my interests in psychology, narrative and female embodiment to show how affect is central to an understanding of female development and female subjectivity. Specifically, I focus on women's novels of artistic development that explore the connections between embodied female subjectivity and affect. I am currently working on two monographs, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness (under contract with Edinburgh University Press), and States of Mind: Modernist Women Writers and Affect.
Teaching Interests
Modernism; Women's Writing; Feminist and Psychoanalytic Theory
Publications
Books
Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma
Moran, Patricia
(2007)
Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma
New York and England :
Palgrave Macmillan
Word of Mouth: Body Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Moran, Patricia
(1996)
Word of Mouth: Body Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Charlottesville, Virginia :
University Press of Virginia
Book Chapters
The Haunting of Jean Rhys
Moran, Patricia and Erica L. Johnson
(2015)
The Haunting of Jean Rhys
In Jean Rhys: Twenty-first Century Approaches;
Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
"What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know": Woolf and Feminism in the 1920s
Moran, Patricia
(2015)
"What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know": Woolf and Feminism in the 1920s
In New Casebook on Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse;
Houndmills :
Palgrave Macmillan
"the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey": Writing as Homeland in Katherine Mansfield
Moran, Patricia
(2015)
"the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey": Writing as Homeland in Katherine Mansfield
In Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe;
Houndmills :
Palgrave Macmillan
pp. 202-218
The feelings are always mine: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys's Fiction
Moran, Patricia
(2015)
The feelings are always mine: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys's Fiction
In Jean Rhys: Twenty-first Century Approaches;
Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
Introduction
Erica L. Johnson and Patricia Moran
(2012)
Introduction
In The Female Face of Shame;
Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press
"Bound and Gagged with Thread": Shame, Female Development, and the Kunstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's The Alberta Trilogy
Moran, Patricia
(2012)
"Bound and Gagged with Thread": Shame, Female Development, and the Kunstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's The Alberta Trilogy
In The Female Face of Shame;
Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press
Gunpowder Plots: Sexuality and Censorship in Woolf's Later Works
Moran, Patricia
(2007)
Gunpowder Plots: Sexuality and Censorship in Woolf's Later Works
In Virginia Woolf and Trauma: Embodied Texts;
New York :
Pace University Press
pp. 179-203
"Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing"
Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran
(2003)
"Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing"
In Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing;
Albany, New York :
State University of New York Press
pp. 1-42
"A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective": Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Writing
Moran, Patricia
(2003)
"A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective": Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Writing
In Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing;
Albany, New York :
State University of New York Press
pp. 215-237
The Cat is out of the Bag and it is a Male: Desmond MacCarthy and the Writing of A Room of One's Own
Moran, Patricia
(1997)
The Cat is out of the Bag and it is a Male: Desmond MacCarthy and the Writing of A Room of One's Own
In Essays on Transgressive Readings: Reading Over the Lines;
Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press
pp. 35-55
Elizabeth Tallent
Moran, Patricia
(1993)
Elizabeth Tallent
In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contemporary American Short Story Writers, Post-1945;
Michigan :
Gale
Edited Books
(2015)
In Jean Rhys: Twenty-first Century Approaches;
Moran, Patricia and Erica L. Johnson(Ed.)
Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
(2013)
In The Female Face of Shame;
Moran, Patricia and Erica L. Johnson(Ed.)
Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press
(2003)
In Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing;
Moran, Patricia and Heller, Tamar(Ed.)
Albany, New York :
State University of New York Press
Peer Reviewed Journals
The Return of Katherine Mansfield
Moran, Patricia
(2011)
The Return of Katherine Mansfield
In Woolf Studies Annual;
Aesthetics of Being: The Unfinished Memoirs of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
Moran, Patricia
(2010)
Aesthetics of Being: The Unfinished Memoirs of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
In Studies in the Maternal;
Cock-a-doodle-dum: Sexology and the Writing of A Room of One's Own
Moran, Patricia
(2001)
Cock-a-doodle-dum: Sexology and the Writing of A Room of One's Own
In Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal;
The Flaw in the Centre: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf's Work
Moran, Patricia
(1998)
The Flaw in the Centre: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf's Work
In Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature;
Virginia Woolf and the Scene of Writing
Moran, Patricia
(1992)
Virginia Woolf and the Scene of Writing
In Mfs-Modern Fiction Studies;
Unholy Meanings: Maternity, Orality, and Creativity in Katherine Mansfield
Moran, Patricia
(1990)
Unholy Meanings: Maternity, Orality, and Creativity in Katherine Mansfield
In Feminist Studies;
Other Journals
"the sudden mushroom growth of cheap psychoanalysis": Mansfield and Woolf Respond to Psychoanalysis
Moran, Patricia
(2014)
"the sudden mushroom growth of cheap psychoanalysis": Mansfield and Woolf Respond to Psychoanalysis
In Virginia Woolf Miscellany;
Kathryn Simpson and Melinda Harvey(Ed.)
Conference Publications
Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds
Moran, Patricia
(2002)
Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds
Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations
Moran, Patricia
(1993)
Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations
Reviewss
Review, Mary Lavin, ed. Elke D'hoker
Moran, Patricia
(2014)
Review, Mary Lavin, ed. Elke D'hoker
In Irish Literary Supplement;
pp. 18-18
Book Reviews
Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: a centenary volume of essays
Moran, P
(2012)
Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: a centenary volume of essays
In Journal Of Postcolonial Writing;
pp. 451-453
DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2012.660359
Review of Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, and Susan Reid, eds. Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism
Moran, Patricia
(2011)
Review of Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, and Susan Reid, eds. Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism
In The Journal of Postcolonial Literature;
TECHNIQUES FOR LIVING: FICTION AND THEORY IN THE WORK OF CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE
Moran, P
(2011)
TECHNIQUES FOR LIVING: FICTION AND THEORY IN THE WORK OF CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE
In Tulsa Studies In Womens Literature;
pp. 190-193
Review of Karen Lawrence, Techniques for Living: Fiction and Theory in the Work of Christine Brooke-Rose.
Moran, Patricia
(2011)
Review of Karen Lawrence, Techniques for Living: Fiction and Theory in the Work of Christine Brooke-Rose.
In Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature;
Review of Georgia Johnston, The Formation of Twentieth Century Queer Autobiography: Reading Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Hilda Doolittle, and Gertrude Stein.
Moran, Patricia
(2010)
Review of Georgia Johnston, The Formation of Twentieth Century Queer Autobiography: Reading Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Hilda Doolittle, and Gertrude Stein.
In Woolf Studies Annual;
Review of Laura Doan and Jane Garrity, eds. Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Discourse
Moran, Patricia
(2007)
Review of Laura Doan and Jane Garrity, eds. Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Discourse
In Woolf Studies Annual;
Review of Victoria Burrows, Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison; Anne B. Simpson, Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys
Moran, Patricia
(2006)
Review of Victoria Burrows, Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison; Anne B. Simpson, Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys
In Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature;
Review Essay: The Katherine Mansfield Journals: Complete Edition. Ed. Margaret Scott.
Moran, Patricia
(2005)
Review Essay: The Katherine Mansfield Journals: Complete Edition. Ed. Margaret Scott.
In Woolf Studies Annual;
REview of Suzanne Juhasz, A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships Between Women; Jo Malin and Victoria Boynton, eds., Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude
Moran, Patricia
(2004)
REview of Suzanne Juhasz, A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships Between Women; Jo Malin and Victoria Boynton, eds., Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude
In Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature;
Review of Janet Theophano, Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote
Moran, Patricia
(2003)
Review of Janet Theophano, Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote
In Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature;
Review Essay: Women's Writing and World War One
Moran, Patricia
(2003)
Review Essay: Women's Writing and World War One
In National Women's Studies Association Journal. Special Issue: Gender and Modernism Between the Wars;
Review of Suzy McKee Charnas, My Father's Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and other Second Chances
Moran, Patricia
(2003)
Review of Suzy McKee Charnas, My Father's Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and other Second Chances
In The Women's Review of Books;
Review of Katherine Dalsimer, Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer
Moran, Patricia
(2003)
Review of Katherine Dalsimer, Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer
In Woolf Studies Annual;
Review of Laura Doyle, Bordering on the Body
Moran, Patricia
(1996)
Review of Laura Doyle, Bordering on the Body
In Modern Fiction Studies;
Review of Susan Rubin Suleiman, ed. The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives
Moran, Patricia
(1988)
Review of Susan Rubin Suleiman, ed. The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives
In Journal of Religion;