Instructor, Writers' Workshop Consultant
Patrick has been an instructor in the Academic Writing and Learning Center since 2013. He teaches courses in reading and writing and works in the workshop as a consultant. He completed his MA in English from UMD in 2011, and he loves medieval history, camping in his pop-up camper, and walking his golden retriever.
Office: KAML 212, 416 Library Drive, Duluth, MN 55812
Spring '23 Office Hours: on leave
Education:
BA - University of Saint Thomas
MA - University of Minnesota Duluth
Graduate Certificate in Technical Communication - Expected 2023
Areas of interest: Rhetoric and composition pedagogy, Scientific and Technical Communication
Book recommendations:
- The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- The Sabbath World by Judith Shulevitz
- Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte