{{short description|British novelist and academic|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use British English|date=August 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} '''Patricia Marjory Duncker''' (born 29 June 1951)<ref name=comma-press>{{cite web |title=Patricia Duncker |url=https://commapress.co.uk/authors/patricia-duncker |website=Comma Press |language=en}}</ref> is a British novelist and academic.

==Academic career== Duncker was born in [[Kingston, Jamaica]],<ref name=comma-press/> and named after her aunt [[Patricia Beer]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/aug/12/fiction.nicholaswroe A shadow at my shoulder: Interview with Patricia Duncker] - ''[[The Guardian]]'' 12 August 2000</ref> Duncker attended [[Bedales School]] in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. She earned a doctorate from [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]].<ref name=autobio/>

She has taught at the [[University of Wales, Aberystwyth]] (1991–2002) and was Professor of Prose Fiction at the [[University of East Anglia]], working with the novelists Andrew Cowan and her fellow Professor Michele Roberts. From 2007 to 2015 she worked as Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester.<ref name=autobio>{{cite web |title=About |url=https://patriciaduncker.com/about/ |website=patriciaduncker.com |access-date=27 June 2025}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Fiction===

*''[[Hallucinating Foucault]]'' (novel, 1996) ([[McKitterick Prize]], 1997) *''James Miranda Barry'' (novel, 1999), published in the United States as "The Doctor" *''The Deadly Space Between'' (novel, 2002) *''Miss Webster and Chérif'' (novel, 2006) *''The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge'' (novel, 2009) *''Sophie and the Sibyl : a Victorian romance'' (novel, 2015)

Short stories: *''Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees'' (short stories, 1997) *''Seven Tales of Sex and Death'' (short stories, 2003)

===Non-fiction / academic (selection)===

*''Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays'' (2002) *"The Suggestive Spectacle: Queer Passions in [[Emily Brontë|Brontë's]] ''[[Villette (novel)|Villette]]'' and ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]''", ''Theorising [[Muriel Spark]]: Gender, Race Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis'', ed. Martin McQuillan (2002) 67–77. * {{cite journal | date = Summer 2004 | title = Mary Shelley's afterlives: Biography and invention | journal = Women: A Cultural Review | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | pages = 230–249 | doi = 10.1080/0957404042000234079 | last1 = Duncker | first1 = Patricia | s2cid = 191507031 }} *"[[Katherine Mansfield]]: The Writer of the Submerged World", ''Interrupted Lives in Literature'', ed. [[Andrew Motion]] (2004), 53–65. *Introduction to the new [[Penguin Books|Penguin]] edition and new translation by Helen Constantine of [[Théophile Gautier]]'s ''[[Mademoiselle de Maupin]]'' (2005) * {{Cite journal | title = A Writer's Writer | journal = [[New Welsh Review]] | volume = 74 | pages = 93–95 | publisher = Department of English & Creative Writing [[Aberystwyth University]] | date = Winter 2006 | url = http://www.newwelshreview.com/contents-74.php }} (Patricia Duncker on [[George Eliot]]) * {{cite journal | date = 1995 | title = "Bonne excitation, Orgasme Assuré": The representation of lesbianism in contemporary French pornography | journal = [[Journal of Gender Studies]] | volume = 4 | issue = 1| pages = 5–15 | doi=10.1080/09589236.1995.9960588 | last1 = Duncker | first1 = Patricia }}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.patriciaduncker.com/ Official website] *[https://archive.today/20121223021012/http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/about/patriciaduncker/ Duncker's page at the University of Manchester web site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231059/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth33 Profile at www.contemporarywriters.com] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070614082459/http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?id=1073&section=1 Bloomsbury author information] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20061012020649/http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-matters-2-patricia-duncker.htm British Council web site]

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