Department faculty
Patricia Roylance
 
 

 
 

Patricia Roylance

Assistant Professor of English

Ph.D. 2005, Stanford University

Office: 427 Hall of Languages, 315-443-9488
Email: pjroylan@syr.edu

Early American Literature and Culture; Cultural Nationalism and Internationalism; History, Historiography and Literature

Courses Taught
Awards
Works in Progress

Courses Taught

Literary Anachronisms: 17th-Century Texts in 19th-Century U.S. Culture (Graduate Level)

The American Renaissance: U.S. Literature and Culture, 1850-1855 (Undergraduate)

The Literature of Revolution (Undergraduate)

Reading and Interpretation (Undergraduate)

Awards

Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, Stanford University (2004)

Tom Killefer Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford University English Department (2003-4)

Stanley Paterson Research Fellowship, Friends of the Longfellow House (2003)

Geballe Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center (2002-3)

Works in Progress

“International Nationalism: World History as Usable Past in Nineteenth Century U.S. Culture” (book project underway)

“Northmen and Native Americans: The Politics of Landscape in the Age of Longfellow” (journal article under consideration for publication)

“Calculating the Consequences: Economic Critique and the Limits of Empire in Prescott's Conquest of Peru” (journal article in progress)

“Sleepers: Catatonic Experiences of National Rupture in `Rip Van Winkle' and Good Bye Lenin” (journal article in progress)
 
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