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Thomas B. Byers

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
  • Office Hours: T 2:00-3:30 and by appointment

Phone Number

  • 502-852-6770

Email Address

Website

Bio

Office Hours:

T 2:00-3:30 and by appointment

 

English Courses Recently Taught:

ENGL 574-01 Studies in U.S. Literature since 1960

ENGL 312 - 02: American Literature II (Spring, 2009)
ENGL 681 - 75: Seminar in Special Studies (Fall, 2008)
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)


Educational Background

  • A.B. and A.M. from Brown University
  • Ph.D. from University of Iowa

Teaching Areas

  • U. S. literature,film, interpretive theory

Research Interests

  • U. S. literature, especially contemporary; film studies; theories of interpretation; the postmodern. Essays in progress on the Bourne trilogy and Brokeback Mountain. Thinking about zombies.

Professional Activities

  • Has taught at U of L since 1980. Widowed, two children. Nine-time Director of US Department of State Study of the US Institute on Contemporary American Literature. A lover of good jokes.

Honors & Awards

  • University Distinguised Teaching Award (graduate)
  • Red Apple Award
  • College Distinguished Service Award for Service to the Community
  • College Distinguished Service Award for Service to the University
  • College Research Award
  • Fulbright Senior Fellow and Senior Specialist

Publications

  • 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.

  • 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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