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Patrick  Hicks

Assistant Professor of English

Office:  111 Humanities

Phone:  (605) 274-5434 

e-mail:  patrick.hicks@augie.edu
 

    Patrick Hicks is a native of Stillwater, Minnesota who attended Saint John’s University.  He holds M.A. degrees from DePaul University, Queen’s University of Belfast, and a doctorate from the University of Sussex in England.  He has taught in Spain and Germany, and his essays, poetry and fiction have appeared in over seventy-five journals, including Ploughshares, The Progressive, Cimarron Review, Indiana Review, Nimrod, Chelsea, Rattle,  Poet Lore, Poetry East, South Dakota Review, Briar Cliff Review, The Hollins Critic, The National Catholic Reporter and Studies. He was recently a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he has been nominated three times for The Pushcart Prize, and he is the author of Traveling Through History (Moon Pie Press, 2005), Draglines (Lone Willow Press, 2006),and The Kiss that Saved My Life (Red Dragonfly Press, 2007). He is currently at work on a new book entitled, This London.  Dr. Hicks routinely leads study abroad courses to England, Ireland, and Spain.   He is the faculty advisor for Writers’ Guild and Expression. 

    

Special Areas of Study:  Creative Writing, Irish Literature, British Literature, Gender Studies, Post-Colonialism, New Historicism, Interdisciplinary Studies

Favorite Places to Visit:  Connemara, Belfast, and Barcelona

Favorite Book:  If stranded on a desert island I'd probably take Ulysses, Hamlet, The Things They Carried, and Ripley Bogle.

Favorite Authors:  Joyce, Shakespeare, Brian Moore, Ted Kooser, Robert McLiam Wilson, J. M. Synge, and several writers with the last name of O'Brien:  Tim, Kate, Edna and Flann.

Favorite Quotations:

"there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."  --Shakespeare, Hamlet (1.5:175-76)

"In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed he her eve, her singrtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven."  --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

"A Belfastful of spines, kidneys, hearts, livers and lungs.  Sometimes, this frail cityful of organs makes me seethe and boil with tenderness.  They seem so unmurderable and because I think of them, they belong to me."  --Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street (1996)