Tom Douglass
teaches
Contemporary Literature, British and American. He has taught courses on the
American Renaissance, American Realism, Cormac McCarthy, American Humor and
Satire, Literary Theory, and the Contemporary British fiction. He is the author of A Room Forever: the Life and Work of Breece D'J Pancake and has edited reprints Hubert Skidmore's Hawk's Nest and Davis Grubb's Fools' Parade. He has published essays on James Agee, Jayne
Anne Phillips, Mary Lee Settle, Davis Grubb, Seamus Heaney, Henry Pearson, et
al. He serves as the Appalachian Echoes series editor for the University of Tennessee Press.
He
has presented papers on Richard Ford, Walker Evans, Edgar Allan Poe, Denise
Giardina, Jill McCorkle, Ken Kesey, Gurney Norman, Jayne Anne Phillips, et
al. He also co-organized the first ECU HumorFest, featuring Kinky
Friedman, Andrei Codrescu, and Jill McCorkle, and co-organized The Turning
Night of Stars, featuring Coleman Barks, David Darling, Glen Velez, and
Zuleikha, performing the poetry of Rumi. He is presently co-organizing the
first ECU Pirate Read featuring Three
Cups of Tea and a visit by the author Greg Mortenson, the Nobel Peace Prize
nominee.
Degrees
B.A. Davis and Elkins
College
M.A. UNC-Chapel
Hill
M.L.S. Indiana
University, Bloomington
Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill
Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Contemporary American/British Literature
Appalachian Literature
Biography
Critical Theory
Southern Literature
Courses Taught
7065: Literary Criticism
6065: Foundations of Literary Criticism
6260: Twentieth-Century American Literature
6250: American Realism
6220: American Renaissance
6185: Twentieth-Century British Literature
5260: The Novel Since 1945
5230: Southern Regional Literature
5060: History of Literary Criticism
4300: Recent British and American Fiction
4000: Introduction to Literary Theory
3420: The Short Story
3020: History of American Literature to 1900
2200: Major American Writers
2000: Interpreting Literature
1200: Composition
1100: Composition
