Douglas Lane Patey (born 1952) is an American academic and professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. His area of expertise is 18th-century British literature.

Early life and education

Patey was raised in Corning, New York. Patey received an A.B. from Hamilton College. He received MA in English from the University of Virginia in 1973. His thesis was Poets and Painters, and Two Versions of Meredith's Love in the Valley. He received an MA in Philosophy in 1977, also from the University of Virginia. His thesis was Intentionalism in Literary Aesthetics. He received a PhD from the University of Virginia in 1979. His dissertation was Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age.

Career

Patey became an assistant professor at Smith College in 1979 and a professor in 1991. In 2003, he became the Sophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College. In 1994, Patey received a Guggenheim fellowship in English. He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Selected publications

Books

Articles

As editor