Douglas Lane Patey
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University of Virginia, M.A. English
University of Virginia, M.A. Philosophy
Douglas Lane Patey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) 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]
