Douglas Lane Patey
Neilson A/15, x3314, dpatey@email.smith.edu
Douglas Lane Patey, Sophia Smith Professor of English, holds an A.B. from Hamilton College, masters' degrees (in philosophy and English) from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in English from Virginia.  He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation.  A specialist in eighteenth-century British literature and thought, he has written or edited five books, including Probability and Literary Form (1984), Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography (1998),and most recently Of Human Bondage: Historical Perspectives on Addiction (2003), as well as essays on Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Hegel, and the origins of modern disciplinary distinctions between the "arts" and the "sciences."  He teaches courses on Pope and Swift; the 18th-century novel; the English Language; The Technology of Reading and Writing (on the history of literacy); and occasional seminars on Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, and the development of literary theory.  He currently also directs Smith's interdisciplinary Program in the History of Science and Technology (in which he team-teaches "Images and Understanding," a history of theories of vision, light, and visualization) and is active in efforts to establish programs at Smith in Linguistics and in Landscape Studies.