Associate Professor Lorraine Sim

Lorraine Sim is Associate Professor in Modern English Literature in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. Her research interests include modernism and modernity, twentieth-century literature, early twentieth-century photography, theories of the everyday, feminist studies, and the intersections between literature and philosophy. 

She is the author of two monographs – Ordinary Matters: Modernist Women’s Literature and Photography (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Virginia Woolf: the Patterns of Ordinary Experience (Ashgate, 2010). Her research has been widely published in journals including Modernism/modernity, Photography and Culture, Modernist Cultures, Journal of Modern Literature, Women’s Studies and Australian Feminist Studies. Lorraine is currently writing her third book, Happy Modernisms, which examines ideas and the aesthetics of happiness in modernist literature, art and culture. Other current interests and projects include modernism and the sacred and Australian women's photography spanning the period 1900-1950.

In 2009, Lorraine co-founded the Australasian Modernist Studies Network  and, following serveral terms as the AMSN Chair, she currently serves on the Network's National Advisory Board. She serves on the Australian University Heads of English Research Committee and sits on the editoral boards of the journals Feminist Modernist Studies, Australian Feminist Studies, and Affirmations: of the Modern.

Lorraine holds a PhD in English Literature and a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons) in literature and philosophy from The University of Western Australia. Prior to joining Western Sydney University in 2011, she held lectureships at the University of Ballarat (2006-2010) and The University of Western Australia (2004-2005).

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