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Humanities Professor M. Thomas Inge |
R-MC Humanities Professor M. Thomas Inge '59 is the co-editor of a new book,
Southern Frontier Humor: An Anthology (University of Missouri Press, 2010).
The book is an anthology of comic stories and essays that were published in nineteenth-century newspapers in the South and elsewhere. "The authors were not writers but lawyers, doctors and professional men who wrote for their own amusement, but in the process they preserved in realistic detail and pure American dialect what life was like on the Southern frontier," says Inge. "They were American literature's first realists, and Mark Twain learned how to write by imitating them. The book is a continuation of work I began on American humor at the start of my career and my second collaboration with Ed Piacentino of High Point University. We published
Humor of the Old South (University of Kentucky Press) in 2001."
Inge is also the editor of the book
My Life with Charlie Brown (University Press of Mississippi, April 2010). The book is a collection of autobiographical essays, introductions, articles, reviews and lectures that tell the personal tale of
Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. In January 2010, an article Inge wrote about Charlie Brown and
Peanuts was published in The Richmond
Times-Dispatch. A review of the book was published in the Richmond
Times-Dispatch on Sunday, July 5, 2010.
On Wednesday, June 9, 2010, Inge was interviewed by the Associated Press about the end of the Orphan Annie comic strip in print publications and its legacy. Inge was also quoted in an article published in the July 2010 edition of
Richmond magazine. The article is titled "American Woman" and focuses on Miss America. Click
here to read the article.
Inge, the Blackwell Professor of the Humanities at R-MC, joined the faculty at Randolph-Macon College in 1984. He earned his B.A. at Randolph-Macon College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University.