Patrick Manning

Pat Manning teaches courses in the Composition Studies program and is a Faculty Consultant at the Writing Center, where he serves as the Outreach Coordinator and Peer Tutor Coordinator. His interests include first-year writing, writing center pedagogy, working class studies, cultural geography, and creative writing. Pat’s critical writing has appeared in Community Literacy Journal, The Canadian Journal of American Studies, Journal of the Midwest MLA and elsewhere, and his creative writing has appeared in various places, including the edited collection Western Pennsylvania Reflections: Stories from the Alleghenies to Lake Erie.

Pat received a BA in Writing, Cultural Anthropology, and Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh; he completed an MA in English and a Masters in Liberal Studies in American Culture, both from Eastern Michigan University. At McMaster University, he earned a PhD in English and Cultural Studies with his dissertation, “Toward Rust Belt Aesthetics: Exploring the Cultural Projects of the Deindustrialized U.S. Midwest.”