M. Thomas Inge ’59, Randolph-Macon College’s Blackwell Professor of the Humanities, was recently presented an award by the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia for his 20 years of service as a member and as vice president of the Museum Board.

In 2008, Inge curated an exhibition at the Museum focused on adaptations of Poe’s stories to comic books and graphic novels, and in 2014 he wrote the introduction to a graphic novel based on Poe’s works by Richard Corben, a preeminent graphic artist, called Spirits of the Dead. Inge has read papers and lectured on Poe on numerous occasions in the United States and in Europe and Japan.

Publications and Presentations
Recent publications by Inge, who has taught at Randolph-Macon College for 34 years, include “Ollie Harrington’s Dark Laughter,” Illustration, No. 65 (August 2019), 36-53; and “Who Cares About the Comics?” Bubbles, No. 3 (July 2019), 33-34. An extensive “Interview with M. Thomas Inge” also appeared in Bubbles, No. 2 (May 2019), 13-20, and it will be reprinted in the International Journal of Comic Art.

Inge read the keynote address, “Southern Studies—Past and Present,” for the meeting of the Southern Studies Forum of the European Association for American Studies meeting at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, April 3-5, 2019. In addition, he read a paper on “Walt Disney and the Art of Adaptation” at the Popular Culture Association meeting in Washington, D.C., April 17-20, 2019.

M. Thomas Inge ’59
Inge, who earned his B.A. at Randolph-Macon College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University, teaches a variety of courses at RMC, including American Humor, Graphic Narrative, Animation in American Culture, and Walt Disney’s America.

In 2018, Inge was presented the Lynn Bartholome Eminent Scholar Award at the Popular Culture Association annual meeting. The award recognizes distinguished scholars who have made significant and lasting contributions to the study of popular and American culture.