Rate My Professor Patricia Cramer

Cramer’s research focuses on Virginia Woolf, modernism, homophile studies, and feminism. She co-edited Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings (New York University Press, 1997) and Re-Reading, Re-Writing, Re-Teaching Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers from the Fourth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (Pace University Press, 1995). Notable publications include “Virginia Woolf and Theories of Sexuality” in Virginia Woolf in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2012), “Woolf and Sexuality” in The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2010), “Trauma and Lesbian Returns in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and The Years” in Virginia Woolf and Trauma (Pace University Press, 2007), “Jane Harrison and Lesbian Plots: The Absent Lover in The Waves” (Studies in the Novel, 2005), and “Matriarchal Family of Origins in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts” (Twentieth Century Literature, 1993). She is currently completing books Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Waves’: A Love Story and ‘What are the Wild Waves Saying’: Bloomsbury vs the Public School. Cramer has received the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Fellowship (2019-2020), CLAS Summer Fellowship (2022), Provost Fellowship (2009), Outstanding Teacher Award at UConn Stamford (1993), and various research grants supporting archival work at King’s College Cambridge and the British Library. She has presented extensively at international Virginia Woolf conferences, including the 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (2021) and co-facilitated a virtual Woolf salon (2021).