Dr Teresa Fitzpatrick FHEA, CMBE
Lecturer
Strategy, Digital Awareness and Professional Development, Project Management
My profile
Biography
A Fellow of the HEA since 2015, Teresa is a Lecturer in the Department of Strategy, Enterprise & Sustainability where she brings her extensive professional experience in the field of Strategy and Forward Planning, Organisational Thinking, Project Management and Evaluation to units on the Business Management and Degree Apprenticeship Degrees (Business in Action). Previously a Policy Analyst, Strategy & Forward Planning, and Evaluation Project Manager for Business and Environmental Policy, Teresa taught Evaluation Tools and Methodologies (2007-2010), developing innovative guidance for Policy Evaluation before moving to the UK. As a tutor on business growth programmes in the Centre for Enterprise, Teresa developed her teaching career in Management and Leadership with a focus on Action Learning before becoming a full-time FE lecturer (2015-2021). Teresa returned to ManMet in early 2022 as an Academic Tutor and Research Associate, re-joining the Centre to carry out several evaluations of business growth programmes alongside MSc Management supervision and L4-6 teaching.
Interests and expertise
Applied Strategy, CSR, evaluation strategy and methodology, policy cycle management, sustainability and environmental policy.
Other research interests: material ecofeminism, critical plant studies, environmental humanities
Teaching
Teresa teaches on the Degree Apprenticeship units on Strategy and Project Management.
Digital Awareness & Professional Development (L4)
Strategy in Practice and Operational Thinking (L6) and Project Management & Portfolio (L6)
Principles of Project Management (L7)
Supervision
Dissertation Supervision (L7)
Research outputs
Fitzpatrick, T. ‘Evaluating Legislation: An Alternative Approach to Evaluating EU Internal Market & Services Law’, Evaluation 18.4, October 2012, pp.477-499.
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Chapters in books
Fitzpatrick, T. (2023) 'The rise in ecohorror and ecogothic criticism.' In Bacon, S. (ed.) The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 259-274.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2023) 'Wisteria: A Female EcoGothic Metaphor in American Fiction Through the Ages.' In Hendry, M. (ed.) Stratified Nature in Women's Writing: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 19-34.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2020) 'Green is the new black: plant monsters as ecoGothic tropes; vampires and femmes fatales.' In Edney, S. (ed.) EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century: phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 130-147.
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Journal articles
Fitzpatrick, T. (2024) 'Book Review: Brittany, Michele & Diak, Nicholas. (Eds). (2020). Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern.' Journal of Ecohumanism, 3(1) pp. 89-92.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2023) 'Book review: Nicole C. Dittmer. Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023, vii-ix + 227 pp..' Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 19(3) pp. 227-230.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2023) 'Book Review: Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and Nonhuman. Edited by Sladja Blazan.' Gothic Studies, 25(2) pp. 217-221.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2012) 'Evaluating legislation: An alternative approach for evaluating EU Internal Market and Services law.' Evaluation, 18(4) pp. 477-499.
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Non-peer reviewed articles / reviews
Fitzpatrick, T. Book review: Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2022) Book review: Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2021) Book review: Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin-de-Siècle by Emily Alder.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2021) Book review: Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene.
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Theses and dissertations
Fitzpatrick, T. Killer Plants and Gothic Gardeners: gendered ecoGothic monsters as cultural representations of eco-social anxieties in literature and film from 1890-2015.