George Thomas
George Porter Thomas is an Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College. Before coming to Flagler, he taught at Clemson University, Guilford College, Georgia Tech, and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. His research and teaching are about twentieth and twenty-first-century US literature, African-American literature, and film.
Professional Profile
Dr. Thomas holds a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from the University of California, Davis.
Teaching
He is currently teaching Introduction to Late American Literature, Contemporary American Literature, and a Core course called Writing and Citizenship in a Digital World.
Research
His work has appeared in Mediations, Mississippi Quarterly, American Studies, Criticism, and in the edited collection Faulkner’s Families. His monograph, Bloodlines: Time and Race in American Literature, on the fiction of William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, and Juan Rulfo, is currently under review. He is also co-editing a collection called Bad Art, which is about literature and film that is difficult (or impossible) to deem morally or politically virtuous.