Assistant Professor
Specialization:
Dr.Thomas studies Afrodiasporic Literature across genres, especially speculative fiction, Caribbean literature & culture, comic books, and science & technology studies. Her work agitates against androcentric modernity and antiblack humanism.
Education:
She received her PhD in Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Bio:
Dr. Cathy Thomas is a creative writer and scholar invested in womanist and black feminist pedagogy, practice, critique, and play.
Prior to academia, she worked in a genetics lab, at a neuropsychiatric center focused on mindfulness, in Hollywood, and on HIV clinical research.
Courses:
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Spring 2026 ENGL 92RA Reading the Apocalypse
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Winter 2026 ENGL 107 The Craft of Fiction
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Fall 2023 ENGL 122RC Reading the Caribbean through Carnival
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Fall 2022 ENGL 192SC Science Fiction: Speculations in Color