AUTHOR: Patrick Hastings

Patrick Hastings is the Education Outreach Specialist for the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. His work for the Library involves making our materials and resources accessible and useful to teachers and students both onsite and online. Previously, Patrick spent twenty years as a high school English teacher. He is the author of The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses and has presented and written widely about Joyce and modernism.

Most Recent Posts

• Founding Farmer: Thomas Jefferson’s New and Improved Plow December 10th, 2025
• Thanksgiving, Football, and the Emergence of an American Game November 25th, 2025
• Isaiah Thomas: Revolutionary Printer November 19th, 2025
• America 250 Film Series (Pt. II) November 13th, 2025
• Young George Washington’s War Journals September 24th, 2025
• Back to School in the Rare Book Classroom September 17th, 2025
• T.S. Eliot, Bloomsbury, and the Hogarth Press August 20th, 2025
• The First Edition(s) of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” August 13th, 2025
• Printing Illustrations August 7th, 2025
• America 250 Film Series July 9th, 2025