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Biography
Activities and Interests
Tom is the author of Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at Home, and The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory. He has published essays in journals including Signs, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and Camera Obscura.
For several years, Tom was general editor of the journal Genders. Before moving to Washington, he served as director of the Cultural Studies Program at Indiana University, and was an adjunct professor in the Cognitive Science Program. He is currently working on a book analyzing the relation between ethnicity and technicity in contemporary science fiction, with special attention to the emergence of writers of color in the genre and the ways that they expropriate and renarrate cyberpunk conventions for the representation of technological embodiment and virtual forms of belonging and community.
Research
Research Advised
- Alexander, Dorian Lucus. Barbarian + Wizard = Heretic: Evoking the Revolutionary Fantastic in Samuel R. Delany’s Nevèrÿon. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- McCourt, Amanda. Futurist Folklore and Materialist Magic: New Wave Science Fiction in American Counterculture. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Jin, Ziqi. Crafting a Shared Universe: An Interdisciplinary Poetics of Narrative. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Yim Schlotfeldt, Rachel. Speculating on the Terms of “Small, Foreign, and Female”: Reimagining the Temporality of Technology Through Asian American Cultural Production. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Cuffman, Jennifer. Utopias in Unlikely Places: Literary Utopias, Race, and World-Building in the Present. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Reeves, Kathleen. Motherhood and Freedom in Women's Writing After 1970. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Wirth, James Benson. Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Boulware, Taylor. Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Wetzel, Ariel. Alienating Punishment: Prisons in Science Fiction. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Sudhinaraset, Pacharee. The End of Innocence: Women of Color Literature, Utopia, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Cold War Racial Liberalism. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Chang, Edmond Y. Technoqueer: Re/Con/Figuring Posthuman Narratives. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.