Henry, Patrick
HENRY, Patrick
HENRY, Patrick. American, b. 1940. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Rice University, Houston, TX, instructor in French, 1968-69; Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, instructor in French, 1969-70; University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Fulbright lecturer in American literature, 1971-72; Willamette University, Salem, OR, assistant professor of French, 1973-76; Whitman College, assistant professor, 1976-79, associate professor, 1979-88, professor of French, 1988-, head of department of foreign languages and literatures, 1979-82. Has taught three National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) seminars on Montaigne to high school teachers, 1990, 1993, 1994. Publications: Voltaire and Camus: The Limits of Reason and the Awareness of Absurdity, 1975; Montaigne in Dialogue: Censorship and Defensive Writing, Architecture and Friendship, the Self and the Other, 1987. EDITOR: (and contrib.) An Inimitable Example: The Case for the Princesse de Cleves, 1992; Approaches to Teaching Montaigne's "Essays," 1993. Contributor of articles, stories, and reviews to language and literature journals and newspapers. Address: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]