Contact Information

Office: 4142 JFSB

Phone: 422-6439

E-mail: madden@byu.edu

Office Hours:
MW 11-12:30

Courses Taught:
Engl 150 (College Writing)
Engl 218R (Introduction to Creative Writing)
Engl 317R (Writing Literary Nonfiction)
Engl 337R (History and Theory of the Essay)
Engl 419R (Inscape)

Patrick Madden joined the BYU English Department in 2004 after completing his Ph.D. at Ohio University. He specializes in theory and practice of the personal essay and its sister genres (travel, aphorism, etc.) in literary nonfiction. He is also interested in Latin American Literature.

Dr. Madden was raised in Whippany, New Jersey, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He received his B.S. in physics from Notre Dame in 1993, his M.A. in English from BYU in 1999, and his Ph.D. in English from Ohio University in 2004. He served a mission to Uruguay from 1993-1995 and later returned there as a Fulbright fellow from 2002-2003 to write his dissertation, a collection of travel essays.

His first book, Quotidiana, a collection of essays that was runner-up in the 2007 AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction, will be published in early 2010 by the University of Nebraska Press. He has published individual essays in The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Portland Magazine, and many other journals, plus some of these essays have been anthologized in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2007 and The Best Creative Nonfiction vol. 2 or noted in the back of The Best American Essays.

He enjoys volleyball, basketball, web design, strategy games, singing, Rush, and Notre Dame football. He and his wife, Karina, have two sons and three daughters.

Degrees

PhD, Ohio U., 2004
MA, BYU, 1999
BS, Notre Dame, 1993

Links

• Quotidiana