Patricia Rae
Professor
D.Phil. Oxford
- Literary modernism in Britain and the United States, especially the genres of elegy and memoir
- culture and politics in the 1930s
- the Spanish Civil War
- World War I
- the theory and practice of mourning, elegy, commemoration
- literature and the visual arts
- Imagism and Vorticism
- pragmatism
Contact
- 613-533-6000, ext. 74436
- pmr1@queensu.ca
- office: Watson Hall, Room 532
2019-20 Courses
- ENGL 461 001-1/3.0 Topics in Modern/Contemporary British Literature I – Literature Between the Wars: Elegies and Memoirs of the First World War and the Spanish Civil War
- ENGL 862 Topics in Modernism: Modernist Elegy
Recent Publications
“Orwell, Late Modernism, and the Spanish Civil War,” in A History of 1930s Literature, ed. Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018.)
“Modernist Figures and the Pluralistic Universe,” in Understanding James, Understanding Modernism, ed. David Evans. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017. 193-214.
“Surveillance and the "Poetics of Silence": Late Modernist Imagism in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four," in Mark Levene, ed. Political Fiction. Salem Press, 2015. Pp. 132-152.
“ ‘There’ll be no more fishing this side the grave’: George Orwell’s Radical Nostalgia,“ Modernism and Nostalgia I, ed. Tammy Clewell (Palgrave, 2013) 149–165.
“ ‘Grieving in a New Way for New Losses’: British Elegies on the Spanish Civil War,” The Spanish Civil War: History, Memory, Representation, ed. Anindya Raychaudhuri (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013) 124–41.
Current Supervisions
Adam Cotton, Irene Mangoutas (about students)