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Thomas B. Byers
Appointments
- Professor
- Director, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society at the University of Louisville
Departments
Location
- Room 319 B
- Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
Phone Number
- 502-852-6770
Email Address
Website
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English Courses Recently Taught:
ENGL 681 – 75: Film and the Postmodern (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 202 - 02: Introduction to Creative Writing (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 692 - 75: Topics in Interpretive Theory since 1900 (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 394 - 30: American Short Fiction (Summer, 2006)
Educational Background
- Ph.D. from University of Iowa
Teaching Areas
- U. S. literature and film
Research Interests
- U. S. literature, especially contemporary; film studies; theories of interpretation; the postmodern. Work in progress: trying to finish a manuscript on fathers in Hollywood movies 1978-present. Future projects of which I dream: a book on how postmodernity and postmodernism are manifested in popular film; a book on death in selected American writers from Bradstreet to DeLillo
Professional Activities
- Now in 25th year of teaching at U of L. Winner of Distinguished Teaching Award and Red Apple Award. Married, two children. A lover of good jokes.
Publications
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Back to the Future: The Humanist Matrix
Bartlett, Laura, and Thomas B. Byers. "Back to the Future: The Humanist Matrix." Posthumanism. Spec. issue of Cultural Critique 53 (winter, 2003): 28-46.
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Titanic Histories
Byers, Thomas B. "Titanic Histories." Und das Kino geht weiter: Vergangenheit im Hollywood der Gegenwart. Spec. Issue of zeitgeschichte 29 (2002): 286-97. In German. For an English copy, e-mail me at tom.byers@louisville.edu
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