Prof. Patrick R. Query, Ph.D.

Dr. Patrick Query is the English program director in the Department of English & World Languages at West Point. He teaches introductory writing and literature as well as courses in the English major, such as British Literature II, The Novel, Special Topics (usually Irish literature), Single-Author Colloquium (usually T.S. Eliot), and EN300 and 400.

He is a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century British and Irish literature and has also taught and volunteered for the Bard Prison Initiative for many years.

Dr. Query is the president of the International T.S. Eliot Society and regularly teaches at the T.S. Eliot International Summer School. His latest book explores Eliot, liberation, resistance and hope, and his next will be a study of the literature of the Aran Islands in Ireland.

Originally from the Pacific Northwest by way of Chicago, Dr. Query now lives in the Hudson Valley, which he has come to love - at least for about nine months of the year. Outside of teaching, reading and writing, he enjoys hiking, Nordic skiing and skating, fishing, foraging, rock music and the cooler seasons. One day, he hopes to live in Spain like his literary hero, Don Quixote.