Associate Professor Emeritus

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Fields of Interest
Biography
B.A., University of Oregon, 1976
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981
Areas of Specialization
American Literature, Law and Literature, Literary History, Pedagogy, and Politics
Research
Selected Research
- Mark Patterson. with Priscilla Wald. “Themes, Topics, Criticism.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1996. Duke University Press. 1998.
- 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
- 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 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Affiliations
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