Patty Keefe Durso holds a Ph.D. in English from George Washington University. She is the Assistant Director for Technology at MSU's Center for Writing Excellence. In addition to working at Montclair State University, Dr. Durso teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University (Petrocelli College), where she is an Assistant Professor of English. She has also taught at George Washington University and Rutgers University.

Degrees:

Ph.D. English, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
M.Phil. George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
M.A. English, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
B.A. Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

Publications:

“Maureen Howard’s ‘Landscapes of Memory.’” Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish-American Women Writers. Eds. Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney. University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Includes material from personal interview with Howard.

“It’s Just Beginning: Assessing the Impact of the Internet on U.S. Multiethnic Literature and the Canon.” Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Eds. Irma Maini and Mary Jo Bona. SUNY Press, 2006.

“Bringing Whiteness ‘Home’: Exploring the Social Geography of Race in Mary Gordon’s The Other Side.” Rptd. in Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select (vol. 216, The Gale Group, March 2006, hardcover and online editions). Originally published in Modern Language Studies, Spring 2002.

“Leslie Marmon Silko.” The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, ed. Burt Kimmelman (Library of American Literature, 2005).

“Racializing Whiteness in American Literature.” Anglophone Literatures/English Literatures (Published in Japanese). General Ed. Kozo Yokoyama; eds. Etsuko Taketani, Shingo Nagaoka, Motoko Nakada, and Eriko Yamaguchi. Eigoken Bungaku Kyoto, Japan: Jimbun Shoin, 2002. 233-70.

“The ‘White Problem’: The Critical Study of Whiteness in American Literature.” Preface, Modern Language Studies. Spring 2002.

Editor, “The ‘White Problem’: The Critical Study of Whiteness in American Literature” (special issue), Modern Language Studies, Spring 2002. Introduction by Dana Nelson.

“Bringing Whiteness ‘Home’: Exploring the Social Geography of Race in Mary Gordon’s The Other Side.” Modern Language Studies. Spring 2002 (v. 32.1): 85-102.

“Gish Jen.” Contemporary Novelists, Eds. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer (St. James Press, 7th Edition, 2000).

“Private Narrative as Public (Ex)Change: ‘Intimate Intervention’ in Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar,” In Process: A Journal of African-American and African Diasporan Literature and Culture, v 2 (Spring 2000): 137-54.

“Jewett’s ‘Pointed Firs’: An ‘Index Finger’ to Character Development and Unity of Vision in The Country of the Pointed Firs,” Colby Quarterly 26 (September 1990): 171-81.

Contemporary American literature, multiethnic literature, race and cultural studies, literature by women, feminist criticism and theory, literature and technology, teaching writing with technology