Prof. Patrick R. Query

I'm a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century British and Irish literature, and at West Point, I teach introductory writing and literature, as well as courses in the major such as British Literature II, The Novel, Special Topics (usually Irish lit.), Single-Author Colloquium (usually T.S. Eliot), and EN300 and 400. I've also taught and volunteered for the Bard Prison Initiative for many years. 

I'm the vice president of the International T.S. Eliot Society, and my latest book is a series of essays on Eliot, liberation, resistance, and hope. My next will be a study of anarchism and representation in the Aran Islands (in Ireland). I come from the Pacific Northwest by way of Chicago, and now my home is in the Hudson Valley I've come to love, at least for about nine months of the year. 

I live in Cornwall with my wife, two kids, dog, and three chickens. Between teaching, reading, and writing, I enjoy hiking, nordic skiing and skating, fishing, foraging, rock music, and the cooler seasons. One day, I'd like to live in Spain like my hero, Don Quixote.