Associate Professor Emeritus
Contact Information
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: 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 2022
Winter 2022
Summer 2021 B-term
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Summer 2019 B-term
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Summer 2018 B-term
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Autumn 2017
Winter 2017
Autumn 2016
Summer 2016 B-term
Autumn 2015
Summer 2015 B-term
Winter 2015
Autumn 2014
Summer 2014 B-term
Spring 2014
Related News
Related News
- Faculty Retirements / Linda Bierds, Sydney Kaplan, Mark Patterson - May 24, 2022
- Staff Profile / Nancy Sisko, Director of Undergraduate Advising - September 2, 2020
- Book Recommendations / English Faculty Suggest Summer Reading - May 28, 2017