Ph.D. 1991 (English and American literature and language), A.M. 1986, A.B. 1983, Harvard.
Cyrus R. K. Patell
Professor of English
Theory and practice of world literature; cosmopolitanism; Global Shakespeare; Star Wars; minority discourse theory; literary historiography; and US literary history.
American Culture Association, American Comparative Literature Association, American Literature Association, American Studies Association, Asian Shakespeare Association, Melville Society, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Modern Language Association, Shakespeare Association of American, Western Literature Association.
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis; NYU Abu Dhabi.
Research Enhancement Award, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2016–2019; Distinguished Teaching Award, NYU, 2004; Golden Dozen Award, NYU, 2003; Research Challenge Fund Grant, NYU, 2004, 1999, 1998, 1996; Curricular Development Challenge Fund Grant, NYU, 2004, 1997; Golden Dozen Teaching Award, NYU, 1995; President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, 1991-1993.
Cyrus R. K. Patell is Visiting Professor of Literature at NYUAD and Professor of English at NYU in New York. He received his AB, AM, and PhD in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University.
Patell began his scholarly career as a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century US literature and culture, but his recent scholarship and teaching has centered on the theory and practice of world literature; cosmopolitanism; Global Shakespeare; Star Wars; minority discourse theory; literary historiography; and US literary history world literature. He is the author most recently of Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe (2021), published by Bloomsbury as part of its “Philosophical Filmmakers series.” Other publications include Emergent U.S. Literatures (NYU Press, 2014) and Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination (Palgrave, 2015). Patell is presently at work on entitled “What in the World is a Global Text?” as well as a study of the ways in which Shakespeare's Hamlet became a part of global cultural heritage. With Deborah Lindsay Williams, he is co-editing volume eight of the twelve-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English (general editor Patrick Parrinder) on the American novel after 1940.
Patell has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Undergraduate Honors for the English Department at NYU. From 2010-2013, Patell was the inaugural Associate Dean of Humanities for NYU Abu Dhabi. Patell serves as the publisher for Electra Street: A Journal of the Arts and Humanities and its sister publication, Airport Road, a journal of student creative work. In 2004, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award, New York University's highest honor for teaching. His website is patell.net.
Publications
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume Eight: American Fiction after 1940, with Deborah Lindsay Williams. (In press, forthcoming 2022).
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Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and The Star Wars Universe . Bloomsbury, 2021.
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Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015.
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Emergent Literatures, 1940-1990. In The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol.7. Cambridge University Press. 1999.
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The Rolling Stones’ Some Girls. 2011. 33 1/3 Series. New York: Continuum. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, co-edited with Bryan Waterman. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Lost New York, 1609–2009. New York: Fales Library with co-editor Bryan Waterman, eds. 2009.
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Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology.Duke University Press. 2001.
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The Cambridge History of American Literature, general editor Sacvan Bercovitch, Volume II: Prose Writing, 1820–1865.
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The Cambridge History of American Literature, , Volume I: 1590–1820, with general editor Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Joyce's Use of History in "Finnegans Wake". Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1984.