Dr. Brenda W. Thomas

Professor of English

Beethoven, my deceased wonder dog!.

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My two great loves are literature and music.  I came to literature in an eleventh grade English class while studying the great white whale, Moby Dick.  I came to music singing in a children’s choir at age six.  Throughout my life I have sustained those loves through my undergraduate degree at Samford University (1969) and my graduate degrees at Auburn (1972) and Georgia State (1991).  I have also maintained my musical interests by singing in church choirs and community choruses.

 

Like most women of my era, my academic career has been carved out in intervals around marriage and children.  My three daughters—Amanda (32), Emily (28), and Sarah (25)—can testify to the struggles of maintaining a balance of career and family, but they do not seem to have suffered unduly from neglect.  They are strong, independent young women of whom I am most proud.  Proud I am as well of my three grandsons, Max, Riley, and Owen who are the current loves of my life.  (Sorry, Beethoven, but they come first!)

 

I am grateful to LaGrange College, not only for employing me to do the very things I love most—to read and to teach, but for giving me the opportunity to travel with students during the interim term.  Photographic highlights of my recent trip to the Emerald Isle are linked to this page.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Brenda W. Thomas

406 Lincoln Street

LaGrange, GA  30240

Phone: 706-880-8218

E-mail:  bthomas@lagrange.edu

 

 

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Life Highlights:

▪ Travel—particularly my two summers in Africa and Italy

▪ Scholarship—Milton and Music

▪ Service—First Presbyterian Church, Lafayette Chorale, Founding Director of  LaGrange College Writing Center

▪ My 5 minutes of fame speaking to Regis as a lifeline on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”

 

Teaching Interests:

▪ Renaissance Poetry

▪ Milton

▪ Restoration and 18^th Century,

▪ Early English Novel

▪ Jane Austen

▪ Literary Theory

▪ Humanities