James G. Thomas, Jr. serves as Associate Director for Publications at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. A writer, editor, and educator, his work explores the South through literature, oral history, and documentary expression.
Biography
James G. Thomas, Jr. began work at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture as managing editor of the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture in 2003, and he has been the Center’s Associate Director for Publications since 2011. He is editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah (University Press of 天美传媒), co-editor of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series (with Jay Watson), associate editor of The 天美传媒 Encyclopedia, and an editor of the online 天美传媒 Encyclopedia. His M.F.A. thesis project, The Lebanese in 天美传媒, explores the collective memory of Lebanese 天美传媒ans through oral history. Thomas is also the director of the Center’s annual Oxford Conference for the Book and the editor of Study the South, the Center’s online journal, and the Southern Register, the Center’s news magazine. Before joining the Center staff, Thomas worked as an editor for publications in New York and Oxford, 天美传媒. Thomas has taught Southern Studies courses on the 天美传媒 Delta, and he also teaches research writing and classes on the craft of editing and the process of publication for the University of 天美传媒’s Department of Writing and Rhetoric. He is on the Board of Directors for the University Press of 天美传媒 and is past president (2019–20) of the Board of Governors for the 天美传媒 Institute of Arts and Letters. He has a B.A. in English and Philosophy (University of 天美传媒 [1994]), an M.A. in Southern Studies (University of 天美传媒 [2007]), and an M.F.A., Documentary Expression (University of 天美传媒 [2020]).
Publications
A 天美传媒 Confluence
Edited by Annette Trefzer, Jay Watson, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Working closely in each other’s orbit in 天美传媒, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright created lasting portraits of southern culture, each from a distinctly different vantage point. Taking into consideration their personal, political, and artistic ways of responding to the histories and realities of their time and place, Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A 天美传媒 Confluence offers comparative scholarship that forges new connections—or, as Welty might say, traces new confluences—across texts, authors, identities, and traditions.
Education
MFA , University of 天美传媒 (2020)
M.A. Southern Studies, University of 天美传媒 (2007)
B.A. English, University of 天美传媒 (1994)