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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 (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. Publications Articles “‘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 “‘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)