George Porter Thomas
Visiting Assistant Professor
Contact
Department of English
Office: 612 Strode
Email: gpt@clemson.edu
Education
PhD, University of California, Davis; MA, University of Chicago; BA, University of Virginia
Research Interests
American Literature, African-American Literature, Critical Race Theory, Temporality, Film
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
“Racial Historicism,” Criticism 65.2 (forthcoming)
“Faulkner’s Subversive Genealogies,” in Faulkner’s Families, University Press of Mississippi, 2023
“Seeing in the Dark: Film and the Slave Past,” American Studies 59.1 (March 2020)
“Telling Time: Faulkner’s Temporal Turn,” Mississippi Quarterly 69.2 (Spring 2016)
Reviews & Interviews
Review of Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest, by Jennifer L. Jenkins, in Western American Literature 52.4 (Winter 2018)
Review Essay: “Did Critique Become a Thing?” on Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique, in Mediations: 30.1 (Fall 2016).