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

Courses
ENGL 3100 The Practice of Criticism/ ENGL 3990: American Literature from the Underground/ ENGL 3530: American Literatures of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration (Spring 2025)

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 (Spring 2023)

“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).