Douglas Lane Patey | |
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Born | 1953
Corning, New York, U.S. |
Title | Sophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature |
Academic background | |
Education |
Hamilton College, A.B.
University of Virginia, M.A. English |
Thesis | Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age (1979) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English |
Sub-discipline | 18th-century British literature |
Institutions | Smith College |
Douglas Lane Patey (born 1952) is an American academic and professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. [1] [2] His area of expertise is 18th-century British literature. [1]
Patey was raised in Corning, New York. [3]
Patey received an A.B. from Hamilton College. [1] [3] He received MA in English from the University of Virginia in 1973. [1] His thesis was Poets and Painters, and Two Versions of Meredith's Love in the Valley. [4] He received an MA in Philosophy in 1977, also from the University of Virginia. [1] His thesis was Intentionalism in Literary Aesthetics. [5] He received a PhD from the University of Virginia in 1979. His dissertation was Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age. [6]
Patey became an assistant professor at Smith College in 1979 and a professor in 1991. [2] In 2003, he became the Sophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College. [2] [1]
In 1994, Patey received a Guggenheim fellowship in English. [7] He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. [1]
Douglas Lane Patey | |
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Born | 1953
Corning, New York, U.S. |
Title | Sophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature |
Academic background | |
Education |
Hamilton College, A.B.
University of Virginia, M.A. English |
Thesis | Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age (1979) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English |
Sub-discipline | 18th-century British literature |
Institutions | Smith College |
Douglas Lane Patey (born 1952) is an American academic and professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. [1] [2] His area of expertise is 18th-century British literature. [1]
Patey was raised in Corning, New York. [3]
Patey received an A.B. from Hamilton College. [1] [3] He received MA in English from the University of Virginia in 1973. [1] His thesis was Poets and Painters, and Two Versions of Meredith's Love in the Valley. [4] He received an MA in Philosophy in 1977, also from the University of Virginia. [1] His thesis was Intentionalism in Literary Aesthetics. [5] He received a PhD from the University of Virginia in 1979. His dissertation was Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age. [6]
Patey became an assistant professor at Smith College in 1979 and a professor in 1991. [2] In 2003, he became the Sophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College. [2] [1]
In 1994, Patey received a Guggenheim fellowship in English. [7] He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. [1]