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Patrick Scanlon

Contact Information

Email: pscanlon
Postdoctoral Associate

Education

  • PhD, English Education, Columbia University 2018
  • MFA, Writing and Poetics, Naropa University – Jack Kerouac School 2002
  • MST, LeMoyne College 2005

Courses Taught

  • ENC2305: Analytical Writing and Thinking
  • ENC2305: Magic & Imagination in Science
  • ENC3254: Professional Writing in the Disciplines
  • ENC5319: Scholarly Writing for Publication

Pedagogical Interests

The function of epistolary, autotheory and poetics in the formation of one’s writing practice; Using interruption, repetition and digression to access unconscious writerly habits.

Research Interests

The catalogue of shapes and movements through which attention gathers, disperses and sustains; The effects of meditation on the grammar of perception and consciousness;

Personal Interests

Filmmaking (16mm and Super 8mm); Performance (installation and expanded cinema); baseball and basketball.

Best Writing Advice

“The words I use mean more than I mean in using them.” Jacques Lacan; “To know that things are is not to know what they are, and to know that without what is to know otherness.” Lyn Hejinian;

Publications

  • Surfeited By Surfaces: On Three Occasions of Sight – Boredom, Fascination, and the Uncanny” The Candidate Journal, (8), Screens, 91-106
  • “Lacan : Kepler  = Freud : Copernicus,” Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (pp. 311-347). V. Sinclair (Ed.), NY, NY: Trapart Books.
  • “By Bird or Bridge: Paradox in the Sphere of Utility.” W. Welch (Ed.), DOUBLY MAD JOURNAL. (2017)
  • “Island Earth: Bergman, Brahe and the Many Suns.”  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond. V. Sinclair (Ed.) Routledge. (Forthcoming)
  • “Interruption”. Scanlon, P. T. Bryant (Ed.), Encyclopedia (Vol. 2 F-K, pp. 286-288). New York, NY:Encyclomedia. (2010) …. And “Precision”. Scanlon, P. M. Mellis (Ed.), Encyclopedia (L-Z ed., Vol. 3). Troy NY:Studio Hudson. (2017)