Patrick Clement James/CV

Institution: Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10016

EDUCATION

2020 Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Dissertation: Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy

Committee: Mark McBeth (Director), Wayne Koestenbaum, Steven F. Kruger

2014 M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Houston

2007 B.M., Classical Music, Manhattan School of Music

DISSERTATION RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Dissertation Abstract: “Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Epistemology”

Drawing on scholarship and research from the fields of queer theory and composition studies, the dissertation uses the notion of the queer archive to explore three different marginalized modes of reading and writing: bathroom graffiti, opera zines, and HIV/AIDS health manuals. Building on the theoretical work of writers such as José Esteban Muñoz, Leo Bersani, John Paul Ricco, Jonathan Alexander, Deborah Brandt, and Stacey Waite, the dissertation seeks to unearth materials of subjugated (and perhaps anti-social) knowledge and language, showing how the archive can serve as a “sponsor” of literacy for discourses currently under erasure.

Teaching and Research Interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Queer Theory; Literacy; Writing Studies; Pre-Stonewall, Post-Stonewall, and HIV/AIDS Literature and Discourse; Queer Theology; Memoir

TEACHING POSITIONS

2020-2021 Adjunct Lecturer, West Chester University of Pennsylvania (sole instructor, 4 courses)

English 204: Approaches to Pop Culture (2 sections)

Writing intensive course for non-majors with emphasis on research andrhetoric; designed course. 

 English 207: Investigating Experience (1 section)

  Writing intensive course for non-majors, with emphasis on personal narrative, research, and rhetoric; designed course. 

 English 120: Effective Writing I (2 sections)

          Writing intensive course for non-majors, with emphasis on organization, effective communication, and rhetoric; designed course. 

English 123: Effective Writing I (3 Sections)

  Writing intensive course for developmental writers, with emphasis on effective communication and rhetoric; process-oriented

course, including a weekly writing workshop; designed course 

2015-2018 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Brooklyn College, CUNY (sole instructor 7 courses)

The Emergence of the Modern (1 section)

Writing Intensive seminar for non-English majors; Designed Course

Introduction to the 19thCentury British Novel (1 section)

Writing intensive seminar for English majors; Designed Course

Introduction to Writing about Literature(2 sections)

Writing intensive for non-majors with emphasis in research; Designed Course

Introduction to Writing and Research (3 sections)

Writing intensive for non-English majors with emphasis in research

2017 Adjunct Lecturer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY (sole instructor 2 courses)

Introduction to Writing and Research (2 sections)

Writing intensive for non-majors with emphasis in research

2014-2017 Adjunct Lecturer, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

(sole instructor 4 courses)

Introduction to Literature(1 section)

Writing intensive for non-majors with emphasis in research; Designed Course

Introduction to Writing and Research: (3 sections)

Required for non-English majors; Designed Course

2011-2014 Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Houston (sole instructor 14 courses)

Introduction to Poetry (1 section)

Writing intensive for non-majors with emphasis in close reading and research; Designed Course

Introduction to Creative Writing (1 section)

Writing intensive for non-majors with emphasis in poetry, fiction, non-fiction; workshop model; Designed course

Introduction to Writing about Literature (6 sections)

Writing intensive for non-majors with emphasis on research; Designed Course

Introduction to Writing and Research (6 sections)

Writing intensive for non-majors with emphasis on research; Designed Course

PUBLICATIONS

Scholarship

2021                “Stupid Love: Notes on a Lyric by Gaga,” NANO

                        (Forthcoming)

2021                “Unbecoming Words: Latriniana as Queer Rhetoric,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly

                        (Under Review)

Cultural Criticism

2018                “Surfacing: An Appreciation of Salome in 20 Fragments,” Parterre Box

2017                “Mawrdew, He Wrote: James McCourt and the Divine Cult,” Parterre Box

Non-Fiction Essays

2021                “Give Me the Head of St. Catherine of Siena,” New Delta Review 

2021                “Derrida’s Jesus,” Pank (Forthcoming)

2020                “John,” AGNI

2019                “Jill,” American Chordata

2019                “Six Essays for Six Works of Art,” Flock (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)

2018                “Two Islands,” Sequestrum

2016                “George de la Tour’s The Penitent Magdalen (Circa 1640)”; 

“Family Portrait: Cape May, 1987,” Mid-American Review

Poetry

2017                “The Dove,” Oversound

2017                “The Gardener,” Barrow Street

2017                “Needville, TX,” The Cincinnati Review

2016                “The Gospel of St. Margaret,” “Patriarch,” “Ode to the Alligator,” “Flower: Elijah and Milo Peters,” Assaracus

2016                “Idolatry,” Grist

2014                “The Painter,” Gigantic Sequence

2013                “Confession from the City,” China Grove

2010                “Marcel Speaks to Henry and Edward at Heathrow Airport,” Podium

Fiction

2019                “Ezra,” The New Engagement

Music Criticism

2016-Present    Contributed over fifty articles covering New York City opera performances, Parterre Box

Poetry

2017 “The Dove,” Oversound

2017 “The Garderner,” Barrow Street

2017 “Needville, TX,” The Cincinnati Review

2016 “The Gospel of St. Margaret,” “Patriarch,” “Ode to the Alligator,” “Flower: Elijah and Milo Peters,” Assaracus

2016 “Idolatry,” Grist: The Journal of Writing

ACADEMIC SERVICE

2018-2019 Editorial Committee, Elected Member

English, Graduate Center CUNY

2016-2017 Macaulay Honors College Mentor, Selected by Professor Sondra Perl and Professor

Lisa Brundage, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY

2015-2016 Course Assessment Committee, Elected Member

English, Graduate Center, CUNY

2014-2015 Assistant to Admissions Committee

English, Graduate Center, CUNY

Editorial Work

2013-2014 Gulf Coast: A Journal of Fine Art and Literature, Poetry Editor

2012-2013 Gulf Coast: A Journal of Fine Art and Literature, Assistant Poetry Editor

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2020 Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Dissertation Prize, Center For Lesbian and Gay Studies

2020 Best Dissertation in Queer Studies, English Department, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2018 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers: Honorable Mention, GT Press

2018 Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

2017 Provost Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2014-2018 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Brooklyn College, CUNY

2012-2014 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Houston

2011-2012 Graduate Assistant, University of Houston

2011 Inprint Graduate Fellowship, Inprint Reading Series, University of Houston

Papers Presented

2021 “When We Had Wings to See: Alison Bechdel’s Literacy as Platonic Myth,” Conference on College Composition and Communication,”

Spokane, Washington, April 7-10

2017 “Latriniana: Private Rhetorics in Public Spaces,” Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, May 31-June 3

2017 “Maps and Spells: Literacy, Instruction and AIDS,” Early Research Initiative,

Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, September 2

2016 “Illness, Archives, Slime: Speaking AIDS in the 1980s,” Georgia International

Conference on Information literacy, Savannah, GA, September 29-30

2016 “The Book of The Dead: Literacy and Melancholy,” Mid-Atlantic LGBTQA

Conference, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg PA, November 4-6