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Patrick McBrine was born in 1974 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He began his post-secondary education at the University of New Brunswick in 1992 and graduated in 1997 with a degree in Classics and Ancient History. In 1998 he moved to Kingston, Ontario, to begin a second undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at Queen's University. He graduated in 2001. That fall, he moved to Toronto, Ontario, to begin a Master's degree at the Centre for Medieval Studies. He graduated in 2002. He continued to study in Toronto for the next six years, teaching Latin for the Centre and working as a research assistant at the Dictionary of Old English Project, while he completed his thesis. On Sept. 11th, 2008, he defended his dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. His dissertation, "The English Inheritance of Biblical Verse," explores the style and language of Late Antique biblical poetry and the extent to which it inspires similar compositions in the Latin and Old English literature of Anglo-Saxon England. The subject of that thesis is the basis of a first book, Biblical Epic Poetry in Anglo-Saxon England, which is currently under review for publication.
Appointments: From the Fall of 2008 to the Spring of 2010, Patrick was Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at John Carroll University in Ohio. As of 2010, he is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Southern Connecticut State University, where he teaches Classical and Medieval literature. He is currently preparing a translation and commentary of the Carmen Paschale of Sedulius, a poetic rendition of the Gospels focused on the miracles of Christ.