Rate My Professor Patricia Cramer

Patricia Cramer is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literature at the University of Connecticut's Stamford campus. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986, with a dissertation titled The Anti-War Writings of Virginia Woolf and Hilda Doolittle, her M.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1980, and her B.A. from Hartwick College in 1970. From 1986 to 1991, she was Assistant Professor of English and Co-coordinator of the Women and Minorities Program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since 1991, she has been Associate Professor of English at UConn Stamford, where she founded and directed the Women’s Studies Program from 1991 to 2000.

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).