Patricia Monk

Canadian professor (1938–2021)

Reading University (BA)
Carleton University (MA)
Queen's University at Kingston (PhD)

Academic workDisciplineEnglish literatureSub-discipline

Canadian literature
Science fiction

InstitutionsDalhousie University

Patricia Monk (1938–2021) was a professor at Dalhousie University from 1970 to her retirement in 2003. She was the first woman to be promoted to full professor in Dalhousie's English department and is known for her work on Canadian literature and science fiction. She was born in Stockport, England and died at the age of 83 on 29 December 2021 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.^[1]

Selected publications

Alien Theory: The Alien as Archetype in the Science Fiction Short Story (2006)^[2]^[3]
Mud and Magic Shows: Robertson Davies's Fifth Business (1992)
The Gilded Beaver: An Introduction to the Life and Work of James De Mille (Toronto: ECW Press, 1991)^[4]
The Smaller Infinity: Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies (1982)^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Top academic who made university history dies". Stockport Express. 12 January 2022. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
^ McBride, Margaret (2007). "Review of Alien Theory: The Alien as Archetype in the Science Fiction Short Story". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 18 (3 (71)): 412–415. ISSN 0897-0521.
^ McCarthy, Patrick A. (2008). Monk, Patricia (ed.). "All about Aliens". Science Fiction Studies. 35 (2): 328–330. ISSN 0091-7729.
^ Duffy, Dennis. (1993). Monk, Patricia. The gilded beaver: an introduction to the life and work of James De Mille [Review of Monk, Patricia. The gilded beaver: an introduction to the life and work of James De Mille]. American Review of Canadian Studies, 23(1), 143
^ Radford, Frederick (1984). "The Smaller Infinity by Patricia Monk". ESC: English Studies in Canada. 10 (4): 476–488. doi:10.1353/esc.1984.0048. ISSN 1913-4835.
^ Weir, Lorraine (1983). "Jungian Davies". Canadian Literature. 99: 69–72.
^ Grant, Judith Skelton (1983). "The Smaller Infinity: The Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies by Patricia Monk (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 52 (4): 498–500. ISSN 1712-5278.