Associate Professor
PDL A-403
543-7880 (voice mail)
Email: mpat@u.washington.edu
Degrees
B.A., University of Oregon, 1976
Universitat Tubingen, 1977
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981
Areas of Specialization
American Literature, Law and Literature, Literary History, Pedagogy, and Politics
Selected Publications
- with Priscilla Wald. "Themes, Topics, Criticism." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1996. Duke University Press. 1998.
- "Racial Sacrifice and Citizenship: The Construction of Masculinity in Louisa May Alcott's 'The Brothers'." Studies in American Fiction 25:2 (1997) 147-166.
- "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.
