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Affiliated Faculty

Tara Nicole Thomas
  • Pronouns they, them, their, theirs, themself
  • Title
    • Lecturer
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Affiliations Oakes College
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Cowell College Classroom Building, 228
  • Office Hours Wednesdays 7-8 p.m. and by appointment
  • Mail Stop Literature Department
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High Street
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Courses LIT 146G: Queer(y)ing Victorian Literature; LIT130: Queer Classics: 19th c. English Reception of Ancient Greek, Latin, & Persian Literature; LIT116: Ancient Myth /Modern Poetics; LIT 116G: Victorian Monsters; WR2: Viral Vampires: Multimodality in Dracula; Oakes Core: Communicating Diversity for a Just Society

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Literature, UCSC

M.A. Literature, UCSC

B.A. English, Southern Oregon University

 

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship, UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Anne and Jim Bay Fellowship in Victorian Studies, UC Santa Cruz

 

Selected Publications

"Roman Decadence," Michael Field in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2025)

"Queer Decadent Historiography: Michael Field, Victoria Cross, and Theodora," Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism (2020)

"The Queer Art of Self-Actualization," Papers on Language and Literature (2021)

"'We are Michael Field': Uncovering the Queer Archive," Americana: A Bird and Beckett Review (2016)