Calvin Thomas (critical theorist)

{{short description|American academic}}

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Calvin Thomas is an American academic who works in the fields of critical theory, modern and postmodern literature and culture. He is a professor at Georgia State University. His writings have focused on gender, sexuality and the body, with an especial interest in "straight" responses to queer theory.

Publications

  • {{cite book | last=Thomas | first=Calvin | title=Male Matters | year=1998 | publisher=University of Illinois Press | location=Champaign | isbn=0-252-06500-X }}
  • {{cite book | last=Thomas | first=Calvin |title=Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality |year=2000 | publisher=University of Illinois Press |location=Champaign | isbn=0-252-06813-0}}
  • {{cite book | last=Thomas | first=Calvin | title=Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film | year=2008 | publisher=Palgrave/Macmillan | location=New York | isbn=0-230-60008-5 }}
  • Thomas, Calvin (2013). Ten Lessons in Theory: An Introduction to Theoretical Writing. London: Bloomsbury Academic. {{ISBN|1623564026}}