Doctor Lorraine Sim

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Selected Publications
• Professional Affiliations
  
• Contact Details

Biography

Lorraine Sim is a Lecturer in Modern English Literature in the School of Humanities and Languages and a member of the Writing and Society Research Group. She holds a PhD in English Literature and a Bachelor of Arts (1st class Honours) in literature and philosophy from The University of Western Australia. Lorraine’s research interests include modernism, postmodernism, theories of everyday life, women’s studies, and continental and feminist ethics. Her current research is particularly interested in the relationship among gender, modernity and cultural theories of the everyday. Lorraine is a founding member and on the steering committee of the Australian Modernist Studies Network. (opens in a new window) Prior to joining the University of Western Sydney, she taught at the University of Ballarat (Victoria) and The University of Western Australia.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Modernism (literature and visual cultures); British and American modernist women writers (e.g. Virginia Woolf, H.D., Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein); critical and cultural theories of the everyday; twentieth-century literature; women’s studies; philosophy and literature.

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Grants / Current Projects

Modernism and Recovering the Ordinary: 1910-1945. A book exploring representations and the ethics of the ordinary in the work of several British and American modernist women writers and photographers (in process).

Women, Modernity and the Everyday: A Cultural History, 1830-2000. A co-authored book which discusses theories of the everyday (and related categories such as the ordinary, common, daily) in the work of selected nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers, social theorists and philosophers (in process).

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Awards and Recognition

Prize for Higher Degree by Research Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences for article “Virginia Woolf tracing patterns through Plato’s Forms,” Journal of Modern Literature (Graduate Research School, UWA, 2005).

Highly Commended in Iain Brash Prize for article, “Wuthering Heights and the Politics of Space,” Limina (2004).

Australian Postgraduate Award, The University of Western Australia (2001-2005).

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Selected Publications

Books:

Virginia Woolf: the Patterns of Ordinary Experience. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2010.

Articles (refereed):
“Ensemble Film, Postmodernity and Moral Mapping.” Under review.

“A different war landscape: Lee Miller's war photography and the ethics of seeing.” Modernist Cultures (opens in a new window)4.1 (2009): 48–66.

“Modernist Women’s Memoir, War and Recovering the Ordinary: H.D.’s The Gift.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 38.1 (2009): 63-83.

“‘[A] background to our daily existence:’ War and everyday life in Frances Partridge’s A Pacifist’s War.”  Journal of Modern Literature 31.4 (2008): 1-17.

“Writers and biographical cinema: hysteria and the domestic everyday.” Australian Feminist Studies 21.51 (2006): 355-368.

“No ‘ordinary day’: The Hours, Virginia Woolf and Everyday Life.” Hecate 31.1 (2005): 60-70.

“Virginia Woolf tracing patterns through Plato’s Forms.” Journal of Modern Literature 28.2 (2005): 38-48.

“Wuthering Heights and the Politics of Space”, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies 10 (2004): 32-51.

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Conference Presentations (recent)

Keynote Presentation, “Virginia Woolf’s Ordinary Humans.” Virginia Woolf and the Nature of the Human, UQ Centenary Event convened by the School of English and Media Studies (EAMS), December 2010.

“Modernism and Recovering the Ordinary.” New Modernist Studies in Australia, sponsored by School of EAMS, Cultural History Project and Graduate School, University of Queensland, November 2009.

“Modernist Ephemera and Everyday Modernity.” Modernist Ephemera seminar. The Languages of Modernism, 11th Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference. Montréal, Quebec, November 2009.

“Dorothea Lange: on documenting displacement and photographing the familiar.” Women Writers/Artists and Travelling Modernisms. School of EAMS, University of Queensland, June 2009.

“Reinventing Everyday Life: Literary Feminist Interventions.” Manifesting Literary Feminisms: Drafts, Grafts, Nexus and Faultlines. Monash University, December 2007.

“‘A different war landscape’: Lee Miller’s Visual Documents of War.”  9th Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference. Long Beach, California, November 2007.

“Modernist women’s lifewriting, war and recovering the ordinary.” 2006 Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference. Riverside, California, November 2006.

Professional Affiliations

Australian Modernist Studies Network  (founding member and steering committee member)

Modernist Studies Association

International Virginia Woolf Society

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