Professor
Department of English Language & Literature
Editor
Faith & Reason
Contact Information:
Thomas W. Stanford III, Ph.D.
134 Christendom Dr.
Front Royal, VA 22630
540.551.9207
tstanford@christendom.edu
Education
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
Classes Taught
- Literature of Western Civilization (I-IV)
- Foundations of American Literature
- Modern British and American Literature
- 20th Century American Literature
- American Novel
- British Novel
- Literary Criticism
- Poetry and Poetics
- Modern Catholic Literature
- Novels of Jane Austen
- Southern Literature
Areas of Expertise
American Literature
Selected Scholarship
“Toward a Conservative Aesthetic: The American New Critics,” Literature and the Conservative Ideal, ed. Mark Zunac. New York: Lexington Books, 2016. 63-94.
“‘What do I not owe you!’: An Examination of Gratitude in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,” Logos 18.1 (Winter 2015): 152-168. Reprinted in Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen, Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations Series, ed. Harold Bloom. 2017 Edition. New York: Chelsea House Publishers/Infobase, 2017. E-book.
“Ernest Miller Hemingway,” New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2011, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi. New York: Gale, 2011. 322-323.
“Membership and Its Privileges: Family and Community in the Novels of Wendell Berry,” Logos 14.2 (Spring 2011): 118-130. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 393, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau, New York: Gale Cengage Learning, 2016. 89-94.
“Huck’s ‘Sound Heart’ in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Ignatius Critical Editions. Ed. Mary R. Reichardt. Series Editor Joseph Pearce. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009. 367-78.
“Will the Real Monster Please Stand Up?: Creator and Creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Ignatius Critical Editions. Ed. Joseph Pearce. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008. 243-58.
“Dorothy and DuBose Heyward.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern American Dramatists. Third Series Vol. 249. Ed. Christopher Wheatley. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 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. Review.
Professional Affiliations
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
Earhart Fellow
Weaver Fellow