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Cyrus R. K. Patell
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Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. 1991 (English and American literature and language), M.A. 1986, B.A. 1983, Harvard.

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Research Interests:

American literature and culture; minority discourse; cultural studies; literary historiography

Affiliations:

American Culture Association, American Literature Association, American Studies Association, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Modern Language Association, Western Literature Association.

Fellowships/Honors:

Distinguished Teaching Award, NYU, 2004; Golden Dozen Award, NYU, 2003; Research Challenge Fund Grant, NYU, 2004, 1999, 1998, 1996; Curricular Development Challenge Fund Grant, NYU, 2004, 1997; Golden Dozen Teaching Award, NYU, 1995; President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, 1991-1993.

Selected Works:

Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology. Duke University Press. February 2001.
Emergent Literatures, 1940-1990. In The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol.7. Cambridge University Press. 1999.
Comparative American Studies: Hybridity and Beyond. American Literary History. Spring 1999.
Joyce's Use of History in "Finnegans Wake". Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1984.

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