University of St Andrews

Graduate Student, English

PhD Candidate

St Leonard's College

Thesis Title: “‘Making Room’ for One’s Own: Virginia Woolf and Technology of Place”

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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 (First-Class Honours with highest academic achievement) in English Literature from Chulalongkorn University. In 2007, she gained her MA (Distinction) in Colonial/Postcolonial Literature in English from the University of Warwick. Her MA dissertation title was “Historical Fiction and Postcolonialism.” Verita won the Russell Trust Award in June 2010 and was granted £750 towards her research project “‘Directly I put pen to paper’: Writing as Virginia Woolf’s Technology of Place.” This study on Virginia Woolf and the essay tradition was conducted at the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library, which houses most of Virginia Woolf’s manuscripts, and at the Burney Collection in the British Library, which houses 17th -19th century serial publications. Verita is currently writing a PhD thesis entitled “‘Making Room’ for One’s Own: Virginia Woolf and Technology of Place” under the supervision of Professor Susan Sellers and Dr Emma Sutton.

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