BA, PhD (Monash University Melbourne)

Reader, Communication and Film


Room: Hel 264

Email: patricia.maccormack@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2611
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2611



Patricia MacCormack's research activity

Patricia teaches modules on continental philosophy, post-structuralism, film, sexuality and feminism. She is co-leader of the MA module, 'Sexuality, Gender and the Post-Human', and also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on sexuality, continental philosophy and alternative and extreme cinema.

Her principal research interests are in continental philosophy, particularly the works of Deleuze, Guattari, Irigaray, Foucault, Bataille, Serres, Lyotard and Blanchot and she has published extensively in these areas. She has also written on a diverse range of issues such as body modification, performance art, monster theory and European horror film.

Patricia's articles have appeared in journals such as Women: A Cultural Review, Theory, Culture and Society, New Formations and Body and Society. She has published chapters in anthologies such as Queering the Non-Human, Deleuze and Queer Theory, Caligari's Heirs and Zombie Culture which include work on masochism, cinesexuality, horror film and continental theory.

In October 2011, Patricia MacCormack will be doing another series of lectures in the USA, including Wayne State, Detriot and The Cranbrook Centre for Art, Michigan, and will also presenting on a plenary panel with Professor Steven Shaviro and Professor Renee Hoogland at the ASAP conference, University of Pittsburgh. A recent interview with Patricia can be found on the Eye for Film website.

For more information please see Patricia MacCormack's research activity page.

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