Patricia Waugh is a literary critic

Literary criticism

Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...

 and professor of English literature at Durham University

Durham University

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. She is a specialist in modernist

Modernist literature

Modernist literature is sub-genre of Modernism, a predominantly European movement beginning in the early 20th century that was characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional aesthetic forms...

 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
  Blackwell Publishing
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  , 2009)
• Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Routledge
  Routledge
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  , 2009)
• Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (London: Edward Arnold
  Edward Arnold (publisher)
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  , 1997)
• Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (Oxford: Routledge, 1989)

Edited Works

• Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press
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  , 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