Verita Sriratana
Education and Experience
Verita Sriratana is the 2006 recipient of the Anandamahidol Foundation Scholarship under the Royal Patronage of HM the King of Thailand. In 2005, she gained her BA degree (First-Class Honours with highest academic achievement) in English Literature from Chulalongkorn University. In 2007, she gained her MA degree (Distinction) in Colonial/Postcolonial Literature in English from the University of Warwick. Her MA dissertation title is “Historical Fiction and Postcolonialism”. Verita won the Russell Trust Award in June 2010 and was granted funding towards her research project “‘Directly I put pen to paper’: Writing as Virginia Woolf’s Technology of Place”, which she later developed into one of the chapters in her PhD thesis entitled “‘Making Room’ for One’s Own: Virginia Woolf and Technology of Place”. The term “technology of place”, coined by Irvin C. Schick in The Erotic Margins: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alterist Discourse, is appropriated and re-interpreted as part of her endeavour to take Woolf’s idea of an ideal biographical writing as an amalgamation of “granite” biographical facts and “rainbow” internal life and adapt it to forge a theoretical framework through which questions of space/place can be examined.
Publications
Articles
“‘Carrying consciousness like a feather on the top, marking the direction, not controlling it’: Virginia Woolf and Buddhist Consciousness”. Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts. Ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Forthcoming in January 2012)
Review of Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace. Ed. Jeanne Dubino. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 263pp. ISBN 978-0-230-10706-9 Forum for Modern Language Studies 2011; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqr059 Download
"'It was an uncertain spring': Reading the Weather in The Years" in Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Selected Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Kristin Czarneckie and Carrie Rohman. Clemson: Clemson University Digital Press, 2011. Download
“‘Unleashing the Underdog’: Technology of Place and Virginia Woolf’s Flush” in Voices. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Forthcoming in Summer 2011)
“‘A Most Bewildering and Whirligig State of Mind’: Alternative Utopian Space in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando” in Crossing the Borders-Transgressing the Boundaries in Literatures in English. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Forthcoming in Autumn 2010)
“A Concise History of Samaggi Samagom” in the Samaggi Samagom brochure and webpage
"'Unleashing the Underdog": Technology of Place and Virginia Woolf's Flush', in FORUM: The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts (2009) Download
'Literature and the Construction of Identity in Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief', in Thoughts (2008)
'Probing the "Poco": John McLeod's Beginning Postcolonialism', in Thoughts (2008)
'"A Right Poet in his Means (a Modern Poet in his Ends)": John Donne and the Concept of the Right Poet in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry", in Thoughts (2007)
Conference papers
“‘Like Father, (Un)like Daughter’: Virginia Woolf the Essayist on/amidst Sir Leslie Stephen’s Victorian ‘Atmosphere’” at From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture Conference, the British Studies Centre of the University of Warsaw, Poland (October 2011)
“America, ‘That Alluring Land’ Which They Both Have Never Seen: Technology of Place in the Works of Timrava and Virginia Woolf” at Literary Dimensions: Reading Time and Space International Postgraduate Conference at the Faculty of Humanities, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland (September 2011)
"'A Region of Very Strong Sensations': Virginia Woolf's Marginalia as Spaces/Non-spaces of/in 'Becoming'" at Contradictory Woolf: the 21st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Glasgow (June 2011)
"'Carrying consciousness like a feather on the top, marking the direction, not controlling it': Virginia Woolf and Buddhist Consciousness" at the 4th International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, University of Lincoln (May 2011)
"'In so narrow a space you must choose your note and strike it firmly': Virginia Woolf's Essays as Spaces of Juxtaposition and Creative Appropriation" at In Comparison: Juxtapositions, Correspondences, and Differentiations in English Studies: the 20th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland (May 2011)
"'It is far too hot to give any sensible coherent criticism of your paper': Virginia Woolf's Letters as 'Living' Literary Criticism" at Picture This: postcards and Letters beyond Text Conference, University of Sussex (March 2011)
"'Martin was in the jungle alone, and the sun was sinking': The Weather, Culture and Identity in Virginia Woolf's The Years" at the 4th Global Conference on Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity, Prague, Czech Republic (March 2011)
“‘It was an uncertain spring’: Reading the Weather in The Years” at Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: The Twentieth Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky (June 2010)
“‘For the Love of Wisdom’: A Proposal to Make Philosophy a Compulsory Subject in Mathayom 1-3 Curricula” at Collaboration between Government, Private, Industrial, and Research Sectors for Thailand's Sustainable Development: The Third Annual Samaggi Academic Conference, Imperial College (February 2010)
'"A Most Bewildering and Whirligig State of Mind": Social Dreaming and Alternative Utopian Space in Virginia Woolf's Orlando', at The Artist Under the Microscope, c. 1950 - Present Day Interdisciplinary Conference at Ustinov College, University of Durham (November 2009)
'"A Most Bewildering and Whirligig State of Mind": Social Dreaming and Alternative Utopian Space in Virginia Woolf's Orlando', at Crossing the Borders-Transgressing the Boundaries in Literatures in English International Conference, University of Presov, Slovakia (October 2009)
'"Unleashing the Underdog": Technology of Place in Virginia Woolf's Flush', at Woolf and the City: The Nineteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Fordham University, New York City (2009)
'"I'm going to Bang K(c)o(c)k": On the Technology and Construction of Place', at the Second Annual Samaggi Academic Conference, University of Cambridge (2009)
'"Unleashing the Underdog": Technology of Place and Virginia Woolf's Flush', at the Postgraduate Forum, School of English, University of St Andrews (2008)
'Historical Fiction in a Postcolonial Perspective', at the Ashram Vijaya Project, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University (2008)
'Analysis of the Marginality of Tomboys in Popular Film and Literature', at the CUASEAN International Conference, Chulalongkorn University (2008)
Role
PhD Student:Virginia Woolf: Feminist-
Postcolonial Concepts of Space,
Place, and the 'Technology of Place'