Patrick J.M. Quinn

Dean of Wilkinson College of Humanities & Social Sciences
2009 - Present

117 Roosevelt Hall
Chapman University
1 University Dr., Orange, CA 92866
(714) 997-6947

Research, Teaching Awards Committee Experience

Professional Positions

• Chair, Department of English, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi
• Dean, Humanities and Arts Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts
• Professor of English Literature, University of Northampton (UK)
• Managing Director St. John's College Robert Graves Trust, St. John's College, Oxford
• Part-Time Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford
• Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada
• Assistant Professor of English Literature, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina
• Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, Pennsylvania, USA
• Lecturer in English Language and Literature, The University of Maryland, European Division, Heidelberg, Germany
• Lektor in English and Commonwealth Literature, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, Germany
• Assistant Professor of English, The University of Mosul, Iraq
• Head of English, The Campion School, Athens, Greece
• Teacher, Matthew Humberstone School, Cleethorpes, England

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Formal Education

• Ph.D. in English Literature, The University of Warwick
  Area of research was 20th-century English literature. Dissertation concerned the early poetry and novels of Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon (degree awarded 1988).
• M.A. in English Literature, University of Ottawa, Canada
  Main areas of research were 19th-century English and American literature. Thesis dealt with the influence of French Naturalism on the American and British - novel (degree awarded 1972).
• B.A. (Hons) in English and History, University of Guelph, Canada (degree awarded in 1971).

Editorships

• General Editor, The Collected Works of Robert Graves
• Editor, Focus on Robert Graves and his Contemporaries
• Editor, Gravesiana
• Consulting Editor, The European English Messenger
• Advisory Editor, Prescursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English 1914-1945

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Recent Books

• An Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction
• Robert Graves: The Golden Fleece and Seven Days in New Crete editor
• The Conning of America: The Great War and American Popular Literature
• Beyond Modern Memory: The Literature of the First World War Reconsidered
• Robert Graves: Some Speculations in Religion, History, and Literature

Recent Professional Publications

• "The Erosion of Sexual Power in the Femme Fatale: D'Annunzio Transforms Swineburne."
• "More that a Fascination with the Divine Marquis: John Fowles' The Magus and Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet."
• "In Quest of Love's Permanence: The Path to the White Goddness"
• "The French Connection"

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Recent Papers/Presentations

• National Science Foundation: "Technological Literacy Issues for Undergraduate Education". (Washington, DC April 18-19 2005)
• Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities Conference, "The Liberal Arts Education 2060." Prato, Italy (July 2004).
• Sixth International Robert Graves Conference: Robert Graves and the Experience of War. "The Literary Ramifications of the Great War on Robert Graves: Good-bye to What Still Goes On." Keynote Address: Paris (7 July 2004).
• American Society of Engineering Education, "Humanities and Social Sciences and Engineering Criteria 2000: Issues and Opportunities." Salt Lake City, UT (June 2004).

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