B.A.,      University of Minnesota 

Patricia received her PhD from Southern Illinois University in 2000. Her professional areas of specialization include modern and contemporary British literature, multicultural American writers, and feminist studies. Patricia notes that one of the highlights of her time at UWSP involved leading a UWSP semester abroad group to Australia in fall of 2008.

Patricia has published articles on the confluence between Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys and various topics related to feminism. Her chapter “The Bad Girls and Lonely Men of Mary McGarry Morris’s Fiction” was published in Too Smart to be Sentimental, an anthology of contemporary Irish American women writers, available through the University of Notre Dame. In the fall of 2005, she presented “Images and Verse, an ongoing exhibit of her poetry in collaboration with photographer Paul Drewry at Gallery 218 in Milwaukee. She hopes to instill in her students the same passion she has for writing.

In her free time, she enjoys seeking out new music of all stripes, watching independent films, following trends in popular culture and politics and traveling, including exploring the back roads and blue highways of the U.S. A native northern Wisconsinite, she regularly makes it up to Lake Superior for solace and inspiration.

 

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Select Publications

 

“The Mystique of the Female Sleuth: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love a Good Clue” Feminist Collections. Expected publication: Spring 2010.

“Sara Paretsky: Writing in Perilous, Paranoid Times.” Published in Feminist Collections. Vol. 29, No. 2. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2009.

“Mary McGarry Morris: Steel Beyond Sentimentality” for a anthology of contemporary Irish American women writers entitled Too Smart to be Sentimental. Published Fall 2007. University of Notre Dame Press.

“There is always the other side…”: The “Other Women” of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Published in LISA E-Journal. University of Caens, France. December 2006.

“Janine Pommy Vega: The Female Mystic.” Published in An Encyclopedia of Beat Culture. Ed. William Lawlor. July 2005.

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