Faculty
Patricia Harkin, Associate Professor
As well as a faculty member, Patricia Harkin is also a visiting associate dean for LAS. Patty teaches and writes about cultural studies and rhetorical history. She is author of Acts of Reading and co-editor of Contending With Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age, which received the Nancy Dasher Award. Her work appears in Pre/Text, College English, Rhetoric Review, College Composition & Communication, and JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory as well as in several collections of essays. She is chair of the College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English. Her current research concerns articulation theory and the rhetoric of John Quincy Adams.
- Ph.D., English; Miami University of Ohio
- Email: pharkin@uic.edu
- Phone: 312.413.5406
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Chicago IL 60607 | Phone: 312-996-3187 | Fax: 312-413-2125
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