Patrick W. Berry is an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University. His research includes the award-winning born-digital Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times (2012, with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, Utah State University Press/Computers and Composition Digital Press) and the award-winning Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison (2018, Southern Illinois University Press). His current project is a born-digital monograph that offers a much-needed analysis of the supports available to those impacted by the criminal legal system and the potential role that literacy and the humanities can play in helping this population rebuild their lives.

He completed his doctoral work in the Center for Writing Studies and Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

His teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level includes courses in composition, rhetoric and ethics, professional writing, magazine production, and digital media composing in diverse classrooms, including a medium-high security prison. He is currently director of Project Mend, an initiative that focuses on writing and publishing as a means by which formerly incarcerated individuals and their families can reimagine themselves, their communities, and their future. 

Patrick is also director of the Digital Humanities IlM at Syracuse University.  

Originally from New York City, he completed an MA in literature at Brooklyn College while working in magazine publishing before turning to his chosen field of Writing Studies.