Doctor Lorraine Sim

Biography

Lorraine Sim is a Lecturer in Modern English Literature in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. 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 primary research interests are modernism and modernity, Woolf Studies, theories of the everyday, and the intersections between literature and philosophy. Her current research focuses on concepts and representations of the ordinary in women’s modernism in the context of early twentieth-century modernity. Lorraine is a founding member and serves 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 and The University of Western Australia.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Modernism and modernity (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

I am currently working on a monograph which examines representations and valuations of the ordinary and everyday in women’s modernism in the context of early twentieth-century modernity. The book focuses on the work of several British and American modernist women writers and photographers.

I am also co-editing (with Ann Vickery) a journal issue on “Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion.”

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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:

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


Edited Collections:

Sim, Lorraine and Ann Vickery. “Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion.” Affirmations: of the Modern. 2. Forthcoming 2013.


Articles (refereed):

Sim, Lorraine. “Ensemble Film, Postmodernity and Moral Mapping.” Screening the Past.(opens in a new window) 35 (2012)

Sim, Lorraine. “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.

Sim, Lorraine. “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.

Sim, Lorraine. “‘[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.

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

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

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

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Conferences

“Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion” (with Ann Vickery). Inaugural symposium of the Australian Modernist Studies Network. 6-7 February, 2012. The Grace Hotel, Sydney.


Professional Affiliations & Service

Australian Modernist Studies Network(opens in a new window)  (founding member and steering committee member)

Modernist Studies Association(opens in a new window) (member)

International Virginia Woolf Society(opens in a new window) (member)

Affirmations: of the Modern (International Editorial Board Member)

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