Spring 2016 seminar: Ph.D.candidate, English
Thom May was raised and educated in the U.K. He received his undergraduate degree in English and theatre from the University of Warwick, and a master's from the University of Cambridge in 2014 for his thesis on "Hysterical Fiction" written during the transition from the Cold War to the War on Terror. He works on late 20th-century and contemporary literature and drama in the English graduate program at Cornell, and teaches writing in the department. His project as a Mellon Urbanism Fellow will consider colonial figurations of the Amazon in literature and film.