Patricia M. Feito, Ph.D.

Women’s literature, literary modernism, environmental humanities, eco-criticism and theory, film studies, transnational literature and culture, the literature of exile, and writing composition and theory.

Patricia M. Feito is an Associate Professor of English also serving as Academic Coordinator of English since 2000. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, where she specialized in British Modernism and Critical Theory. Throughout her 26 years with Barry University, she has taught courses in women’s literature, writing composition, environmental literature, film, modernist humanities, and world literature. Her varied research interests include the intersection of psychology and aesthetics in environmental literature, the form of women’s voices in modernist fiction, literary transnationalism in the shaping of Cuban identity, and adult learning in literature and composition.

During her career, Dr. Feito has contributed reviews, essays, and articles to publications such as Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, The Virginia Woolf Miscellany, The Literature of Exile and Displacement, British Poetry: 1900 to Present, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

Recent Publications

Feito, Patricia. “Preserving Voice and Land: The Poetics of Josephine Johnson’s Farms”. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 26, no. 3, 2019, pp. 594-614. (Oxford University Press Journal). Link: https://academic.oup.com/isle/article-abstract/26/3/594/5418980?redirectedFrom=fulltext 

Feito, Patricia M. “ Naturalized in America: Tales from a Cuban Exile Family.” The Literature of Displacement: American Identity in Times of Crisis, edited by Holli Levitsky, Monica Osborne, and Stella Setka, Cengage, 2016, pp. 247-253. Link: https://titles.cognella.com/literature-of-exile-and-displacement-9781626619883