Greg Thomas
Associate Professor of English
An Associate Professor of Global Black Studies in the English Department at SU, Greg Thomas obtained a Ph.D from the Rhetoric Department at UC-Berkeley and an M.A. from the “Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture” Program at SUNY-Binghamton. He is founder and editor of PROUD FLESH , an e-journal published by African Resource Center. He is also author of The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire (Indiana UP, 2007) as well as Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh: Power, Knowledge and Pleasure in Lil' Kim's Lyricism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Currently, he is at work on a study of the intellectual politics of George L. Jackson, “The Dragon.”
Areas of Supervision
Africana Literature, Global Englishes ("American," etc.), Gender & Sexuality Studies, Colonialism, Race & Empire, "Theory."