Patricia Laurence is a writer, critic and professor of English, currently at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. Her teaching, research and writing include twentieth and twenty-first century British Irish and Anglophone literatures;Virginia Woolf; Bloomsbury; Comparative Modernisms and Biography. She currently reviews for Review of Contemporary Fiction, English Literature in Transition and The Virginia Woolf Miscellany. Her publications include Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China (University of South Carolina Press, 2003), translated into Chinese (Shanghai Bookstore Press), 2008; and The Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition (Stanford University Press, 1992). She is currently at work on a biography of Elizabeth Bowen and is a recipient of a Mellon Foundation Grant for research at the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas.
