Philosophy Douglas Lane Patey (born 1952) is an American academic and professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
[1] His thesis was Poets and Painters, and Two Versions of Meredith's Love in the Valley.
[4] He received an MA in Philosophy in 1977, also from the University of Virginia.
His dissertation was Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age.
[7] He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.