Associate Professor Lorraine Sim

Accepting HDR Candidates

Available HDR projects

Modernist Studies (particularly British, American and expatriate women writers and artists); Virginia Woolf; Literature and the everyday; Feminist Literary Studies; Twentieth century literature and philosophy.

Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
20082025

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Biography

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 and expertise include modernism and modernity, early twentieth-century literature and photography, cultural histories of happiness, 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 provides the first critical and cultural study of happiness in modernist literature and art. 

In 2009, Lorraine co-founded the Australasian Modernist Studies Network  and, following several 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 Editorial 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 Honours) 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).

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality

Related links

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Western Australia

Bachelor of Arts, University of Western Australia

Research keywords

  • Modernism and modernity; Cultural histories of happiness and eudaimonia; Virginia Woolf; Modernism and the secular sacred; Everyday life theory; Feminist literary studies; Modernist art history and photography

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics where Lorraine Sim is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
  • 1 Similar Profiles