Prof. Patrick R. Query

I'm a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century British and Irish literature and am currently serving as the English Program Director at West Point. I teach introductory writing and literature as well as courses in the English 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 president of the International T. S. Eliot Society, and I regularly teach at the T. S. Eliot International Summer School. My latest book is on Eliot, liberation, resistance, and hope, and my next will be a study of the literature of 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. 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.