Doctor Lorraine Sim
LECTURER, MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE,
Arts (SoHCA)
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Western Australia
- BA University of Western Australia
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Arts (SoHCA)
Contact
| Email: | Lorraine.Sim@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6169 |
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| Location: | 5.G.11 Bankstown |
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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 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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Publications
Books
- Sim, L. (2010), 'Virginia Woolf: the Patterns of Ordinary Experience', : Ashgate 9780754666578.
Journal Articles
- Sim, L. (2012), 'Ensemble film, postmodernity and moral mapping', Screening the Past, .
- Sim, L. (2009), 'A different war landscape: Lee Miller's war photography and the ethics of seeing', Modernist Cultures, 19.
- Sim, L. (2009), 'Modernist Women's Memoir, War and Recovering the Ordinary: H.D.'s The Gift', Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 21.
- Sim, L. (2008), '"[A] background to our daily existence": War and everyday life in Frances Partridge's A Pacifist's War', Journal of Modern Literature, 17.
- Sim, L. (2006), 'Writers and biographical cinema: hysteria and the domestic everyday', Australian Feminist Studies, 14.
- Sim, L. (2005), 'No "ordinary day": The Hours, Virginia Woolf and Everyday Life', Hecate, 11.
- Sim, L. (2005), 'Virginia Woolf tracing patterns through Plato's Forms', Journal of Modern Literature, 11.
Conference Papers
- Sim, L. (2005), 'Ailing Dualisms: Woolf's Revolt Against Rationalism in the "Real World" of Influenza', Thirteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Northhampton, MA.
Supervision
Doctor Sim is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Title: | Writing Women: Text, Desire and the Feminine Subject |
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| Title: | Write by Law: Narrative Subjectivity and Symbolic Authority in Samuel Beckett's Three Novels |
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