Assistant Professor
Department of English
Office - Bellarmine 14A
Phone: (610) 660-1353
Email: ppatters@sju.edu
Education
B.S. – Secondary Education, English, Theology - Pillsbury College
M.A. – Department of English, Butler University
M.A. – Medieval Literature, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. – Medieval Literature, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Courses Taught
English 1011 Craft of Language
English 1021 Texts and Contexts
English 2011 Backgrounds
English 2301 Chaucer and the Medieval World
English 2351 Middle English Literature
English 2915 King Arthur in Film and Literature
Publications
Speculum Devotorum (Mirror to Devout People), forthcoming from the Early English Text Society, Oxford University Press.
Co-editor with Elisabeth Dutton and Nicole Rice. Doctrine and Devotion: an Anthology of Middle English Religious Treatises, monograph in progress
Chaucer on the Margins: Literary Culture and Book Production in Late Medieval and Early Modern England – monograph in progress
“The Impact of the Carthusian Book Trade on Middle English Devotional Writing,” in volume edited by Maura B. Nolan and Christopher Cannon, forthcoming from Boydell & Brewer (2010).
“Reforming Chaucer: Margins and Religion in an Apocryphal Canterbury Tale,” Book History 8 (2005): 11-36.
“The Book and Religious Practice in Late-Medieval England (Introduction),” Religion and Literature 37.2 Summer (2005): 1-8.
Editor, “The Book and Religious Practice in Late Medieval England,” Special Issue of Religion & Literature, 37.2 (2005)
Book Reviews in Notes & Queries, The Yearbook of Langland Studies, and The Medieval Review
General Fields of Professional Interest
Late medieval religious writing; Middle English Literature; manuscript studies; textual criticism; book history; Chaucer reception
Pedagogical Style
My courses emphasize close reading and discussion. To that end, my courses feature short lectures, discussion, group work, and in-class responses. I emphasize the material nature of the text and as often as possible introduce my students to textual and editing theory and to medieval manuscripts and early print books.
Other Information
- Member of the Early Book Society; Langland Society; Lollard Society; Medieval Academy of America; Modern Language Association; and New Chaucer Society
- Awarded the Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Fellow of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (2006), Shallek Dissertation Award, Medieval Academy of America and Richard III Society of America (2004-2005), Lilly Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Seattle Pacific University (2005-2006), Saint Joseph's University Faculty Summer Development Grant, (2009).
- Participant in “The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1700, ” NEH Summer Seminar (2007) and “Image, Text, Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Illuminated Manuscript,” Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar (2005)
- Book Review Editor for the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (JMRC)
- I also taught at the University of Cincinnati and St. Joseph’s College of New York.
