The Undergraduate Faculty

Thomas W. Stanford III
Associate Professor
Chairman, Department of English Language & Literature
Editor, Faith & Reason

Where were you educated?
B.A., The University of Dallas
M.A., The University of Dallas
M.A., The Catholic University of America
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America

What classes do you teach?
Literature of Western Civilization Series (I-IV)
Foundations of American Literature
Modern British and American Literature
20th Century American Literature
American Novel
British Novel
Literary Criticism
Poetry and Poetics

What are your areas of expertise and/or research?
American Literature (especially the literature of the South)

Where have you been published?
"Dorothy and DuBose Heyward." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century American Dramatists. Third Series. Vol. 249. Ed. Christopher Wheatley. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 134-47.

Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets, by Ernest Suarez, with T.W. Stanford, III and Amy Verner. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999.

"This Side of Grace: Allen Tate and the Consolation of Catholicism." Humanitas 10.2 (1997): 105-111.

"So Red the Rose: The Manifestation of the Southern Ethos." The University Bookman 33.3 (1993): 13-16.

What kind of professional activities and associations are you active in?
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Earhart Fellow, Weaver Fellow

Contact Information:
Dr. Thomas W. Stanford III
134 Christendom Dr.
Front Royal, VA 22630
W: 800. 877-5456 ext. 1324
F: 540.636.1655

Office Location: Madonna Hall # 8

Office Hours: 9:00-11:20 a.m. on Thursdays and 1:00-3:30 p.m. on Friday

"Not all those who wander are lost" -Bilbo Baggins

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