Contact Information

Office: 4142 JFSB

E-mail: madden@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
Engl 150 (College Writing)
Engl 218R (Introduction to Creative Writing)
Engl 251 (Fundamentals of Literary Interpretation and Criticism)
Engl 317R (Writing Literary Nonfiction)
Engl 419R (Inscape student literary journal)
Engl 518R (Advanced Creative

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.

He has published essays in Mississippi Review, Crab Orchard Review, Water~Stone, and other journals.

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

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