English Faculty: Patricia Ventura, Ph.D.

Patricia Ventura is an assistant professor of English. Her teaching and research centers on cultural and critical theory, film and media studies, cultural studies, and American literature.

Among other publications, she has written Neoliberal Culture: Living with American Neoliberalism, forthcoming from Ashgate Publishing, that deals with the social experiences, media, literature, and policies resulting from neoliberalism—that is, the economic and political perspective favoring free markets, deregulation, and privatization which led to the US’s economic crisis.

Ventura has also guest edited for the literary theory journal Genre, a special double issue entitled Circulating “America” that examines the circulation and identification of “America” as a cultural-political-military force in late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida and was awarded a Marion L. Brittain Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship.