Patrick Joseph Caoile

English PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Department of English

EDUCATION
Ph. D., English (in progress), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, anticipated graduation 2023. Creative Writing—Fiction concentration and minor concentrations in Filipino American literature and Gothic fiction.

M.A., English, Seton Hall University, 2020.

Thesis: “Dramatic Example: Spectacle, Theatricality, and Performance in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy”

B.A., English, in cursu honorum, Saint Peter’s University, 2018.
Valedictorian; Summa cum laude.

Honors Thesis: “‘Hope, but not for Us’: Perspectives on Suffering in a Kafkaesque World”

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of English, 2020 – Present

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Seton Hall University, Department of English, 2018 – 2020

PUBLICATIONS

Fiction

“Dress Down Day," Growing Up Filipino III (ed. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard), Philippine American Literary House, forthcoming.

“A State of,” storySouth, Issue 51, Spring 2021.

“Carry On, Ghost,” great weather for MEDIA, flash fiction of the month, April 2020.

Essays

"Writing Alongside Phoebe Bridgers," Porter House Review, forthcoming.

Scholarship

“The Liminal Nature of Diaspora: Family, Home, and Identity in Mia Alvar’s ‘The Kontrabida,’” The Watching Review, Volume 4, July 2021 pp. 37-42.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Bodies, Boundaries, and Bakhtin: The Domestic Carnival in Parasite,” Global Souths Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, March 19, 2021.

“The Liminal Nature of Diaspora: Family, Home, and Identity in Mia Alvar’s ‘The Kontrabida,’” New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, March 2019. Graduate Student Paper Award.

“Cinderella and Culture: from Folklore to Classic,” Saint Peter’s University English Department Conference, March 23, 2017.

“Christian Symbolism in Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’” Saint Peter’s University English Department Conference, March 16, 2016.

“Diversity on Campus,” Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) Honors Conference, Gonzaga University, February 26-27, 2016.

TEACHING

University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2020 - Present)

ENGL 365 Technical Writing (Fall 2021)

ENGL 212 Literature and Other Media: “Not So Crazy Rich Asians: Literature of Asian Diaspora” (Fall 2021)

ENGL 102 Writing and Research about Culture (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)

ENGL 101 Introduction to Technical Writing (Spring 2022)

Seton Hall University (2018 - 2020)

ENGL 1202 College English II (Spring 2019, Spring 2020)

ENGL 1201 College English I (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

AWARDS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society

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Patrick Joseph Caoile