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English Faculty 

 

Daniel Patterson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Coordinator of Graduate Programs                                      Language & Literature

Anspach Hall 208
(989) 774-3574
daniel.patterson@cmich.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., Kent State University, 1985
M.A., Kent State University, 1980
B.A., Clemson University, 1975

 

Teaching Expertise

American Literature
Environmental and Nature Literature

Publications

Early American Nature Writers:  A Handbook of Fifty-two Critical Biographies (currently under review at the University of Georgia Press)

American Nature Writers before 1900: Prose [a volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography] (forthcoming, Gale Group, 2007)

Edward Taylor's "Gods Determinations" and "Preparatory Meditations": A Critical Edition. Kent State University Press, 2003

Essays on Nature and Landscape by Susan Fenimore Cooper. University of Georgia Press, 2002

Susan Fenimore Cooper:  New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works. Ed. with Rochelle Johnson. University of Georgia Press, 2001

"Rural Hours"  by Susan Fenimore Cooper:   University of Georgia Press, 1998

 

Selected Articles

"I commend you to Allegany underbrush':  The Subversive Place-made Self in Elizabeth C. Wright's Treatise on Nature, Lichen Tufts." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 17.1(2000): 33-47.

"Writing about Nature in Early America:  From Discovery to 1850." Co-authored with Rochelle Johnson.  The Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook. Ed. Patrick Murphy. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishing, 1998. 3-12.

"The Homiletic Design of Edward Taylor's 'Gods Determinations'" In the Tayloring Shop: Essays on Edward Taylor in Honor of Thomas M. & Virginia L. Davis. Ed. Micheal Schuldiner. University of Delaware Press, 1998.

 

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