About: Annabel Patterson

Annabel M. Patterson (born August 9, 1936) is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. Born in England, Patterson emigrated to Canada in 1957. There she enrolled at the University of Toronto, where her B.A. work received the highest prize, the Governor General's Gold Medal. She received her M.A "with distinction" and her Ph.D. from the University of London in 1963 and 1965, respectively. Since then she has taught at Toronto, York University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and Duke University. In 1994 she moved to Yale as the Karl Young Professor of English, and was made Sterling Professor in 2001, and became a professor emerita in 2005. She was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Toronto in 2014.