Associate ProfessorCurriculum Coordinator, Scheduling206-305-8477mpat@uw.eduPDL A-403Office Hours: MW 11:30-12:30 and by appointmentFields of Interest 20th Century 21st Century American Critical Theory Literature Pedagogy Literary HistoryPoliticsBackground and ExperienceSummaryB.A., University of Oregon, 1976Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981Areas of Specialization American Literature, Law and Literature, Literary History, Pedagogy, and Politics Research Publications, Book Chapters Mark Patterson. with Priscilla Wald. “Themes, Topics, Criticism.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1996. Duke University Press. 1998. Publications, Essays and Articles Mark Patterson. “Racial Sacrifice and Citizenship: The Construction of Masculinity in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘The Brothers’.” Studies in American Fiction 25:2 (1997) 147-166. Mark Patterson. “Surrogacy and Slavery: The Problematics of Consent in Baby M, Romance of the Republic, and Pudd’nhead Wilson.” American Literary History 8:3 (Fall 1996) 449-470. Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations Bald, Emily. Affective Time: American Realism as Resynchronization, 1860-1910. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Caruso, John. The Poetics of Haunting and the Haunting of Poetics: Author and Reader as Uncanny Doubles in the Work of Edgar Allen Poe. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Furrh, Douglass Madison. 'In the Midst of Prosperity': Free-Labor Republicanism, Labor Radicalism in the New York Press, and the Virtue of Suffering in Herman Melville's "The Piazza Tales" (1856). 2010. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Courses Taught Spring 2021 ENGL 250 A: American Literature Winter 2021 ENGL 379 A: Special Topics in Forms/Genres/Media Autumn 2020 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Spring 2020 ENGL 496 B: Major Conference for Honors Winter 2020 ENGL 494 B: Honors Seminar Autumn 2019 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice ENGL 592 A: Graduate English Studies Summer 2019 B-term ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice ENGL 353 A: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century Spring 2019 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Winter 2019 ENGL 242 A: Reading Prose Fiction Summer 2018 B-term ENGL 353 A: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century Spring 2018 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Winter 2018 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Autumn 2017 ENGL 309 A: Theories Of Reading Spring 2017 ENGL 379 A: Special Topics In Forms/genres/media: Narrative as Time Machine Winter 2017 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Autumn 2016 ENGL 309 A: Theories Of Reading Summer 2016 B-term ENGL 200 D: Reading Literary Forms: Cities on a Hill ENGL 353 A: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century: Uncanny America Spring 2016 ENGL 353 B: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century Winter 2016 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice: The Object(ive)s of Literature Autumn 2015 ENGL 309 A: Theories Of Reading Summer 2015 B-term ENGL 250 A: American Literature: City on a Hill ENGL 353 A: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century: Uncanny America Spring 2015 ENGL 353 B: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century Winter 2015 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Autumn 2014 ENGL 242 H: Reading Prose Fiction ENGL 440 A: Special Studies In Literature: Narrative as Time Machine Summer 2014 B-term ENGL 353 A: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century Spring 2014 ENGL 301 A: Introduction To The Study Of English Language And Literature ENGL 301 AA: Introduction To The Study Of English Language And Literature Winter 2014 ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice: The Object(s) of Literature Autumn 2013 ENGL 440 A: Special Studies In Literature: Narrative as Time Machine News Related News Staff Profile / Nancy Sisko, Director of Undergraduate Advising Sep 2, 2020 Book Recommendations / English Faculty Suggest Summer Reading May 28, 2017 Share: Print PDF