Thomas C. Foster
Curriculum Vitae
Professor of English
Department of English
University of Michigan- Flint
Flint, MI 48502-1950
Education Ph.D. in English, 1981, Michigan State University
M.A. in English, 1977, Michigan State University
A.B. in English with High Distinction in the major, 1974, Dartmouth College
Teaching and Research Interests
Twentieth-Century English, Irish, and American Literature, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney and Contemporary Irish Poetry, Henry Green, Flann O’Brien, Modernism and Postmodernism, Literary Analysis for General Readers, Critical Theory.
Teaching Experience
Professor of English, University of Michigan-Flint, 2001-present.
Associate Professor, 1993-2001. Assistant Professor, 1987-93.
Courses I teach: English Studies: Issues and Methods (graduate), modern British literature, contemporary British literature, twentieth-century novel in English, twentieth-century Irish literature, contemporary poetry, seminar in Joyce, introduction to drama, introduction to fiction, creative writing, literature of Greece and Rome.
Temporary Assistant Professor, American Thought and Language,
Michigan State University, 1983-1987, 1981-82, Instructor, 1980-81.
Assistant Professor, English, Kalamazoo College, 1982-83.
Graduate Assistant, English, Michigan State University, 1975-1980.
Service and Related Activities (selected)
Keynote speaker, Blue Water Reading Association annual dinner, November 30, 2006, Port Huron, MI. Topic: “Go with What You Know.”
Lecturer, various high school and college English and writing classes 2005-7.
Reader/Discussant, Teacher Appreciation Day, Rochester Hills, MI, Barnes and Noble, September 30, 2006. Chapter read: “One Story.”
Director, Master of English Language and Literature Program, 2007-present.
Coordinator, University of Michigan-Flint College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Colloquium Series, 2002-present.
Keynote speaker, University of Michigan-Flint Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony, December 3, 2003.