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Patrick McDonald received his PhD in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2018.\u00a0\u00a0He also has a Master of Arts in English from SUNY \u2013 Buffalo and a B.A. in English from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is the author of a recent monograph, and his other work has appeared in ESQ<\/em>,\u00a0Eighth Lamp<\/em>, and\u00a0Research in African Literatures<\/em>.<\/p>\nDr. McDonald is a scholar of early and nineteenth-century American literature whose work examines the residual elements from the past in nineteenth-century American culture and how writers in the period theorize the persistence of the past in the present.\u00a0 His monograph\u00a0Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge 2023) explores the manifold literary responses to the politico-theological crisis in the decade before the Civil War. His dissertation \u201cAristocratic Capital\u201d examines the prominent role that both real and imagined aristocrats play in canonical American novels and political economy from the Early Republic to the antebellum period and how each attempts to grapple with a developing capitalist economy.<\/p>\nHe is currently working on a second monograph about nineteenth-century American encounters with and imaginings of Anatolia and an article tentatively entitled \u201c’And hosts are sacred\u2014house and all\u2019: Middle Eastern Infrastructure and Divining the Secular in Clarel<\/em>.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0When he\u2019s not reading and writing, Dr. McDonald enjoys cooking, exploring Ankara, and spending time with his fianc\u00e9e and cat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant Professor Email:\u00a0patrick.mcdonald@bilkent.edu.tr Phone: +90\u00a0(312) 290 31 13 Office:\u00a0G-113A Full CV Patrick McDonald received his PhD in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2018.\u00a0\u00a0He also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3810\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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