Hello. I'm not sure if this made the list yet, but I saw it on the PCA/ACA
website <https://pcaaca.org/about/memoriam> tonight.
Tom was very helpful as I was gathering materials on Twainian comics.
Michael Torregrossa
M. Thomas Inge
Pioneering popular-culture scholar Milton Thomas Inge died May 15, 2021, in
Richmond, Virginia, after suffering a fall at home. He was born March 18,
1936, in Newport News, Virginia. He received his B.A. in English and
Spanish from Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland, Virginia, in 1959. He
received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1960 and 1964.
Tom served as an Instructor of English at Vanderbilt from 1962 to 1964,
then as an Assistant and later Associate Professor of American Thought and
Language at Michigan State University from 1964 to 1969. He was an
Associate and later Full Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth
University from 1969 to 1980 and chaired the English Department from 1974
to 1980. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of English at
Clemson University from 1980 to 1984, then the Robert Emory Blackwell
Professor of English and Humanities at Randolph-Macon College from 1984
until his death. He was a Resident Scholar in American Studies for the
United States Information Agency from 1982 to 1984 and directed the USIA
Summer Institute in American Studies in 1993, 1994, and 1995.Pioneering
popular-culture scholar Milton Thomas Inge died May 15, 2021, in Richmond,
Virginia, after suffering a fall at home. He was born March 18, 1936, in
Newport News, Virginia. He received his B.A. in English and Spanish from
Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland, Virginia, in 1959. He received M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1960 and 1964.
Tom’s many books include *Donald Davidson: An Essay and a
Bibliography* (coauthor
Thomas Daniel Young, Vanderbilt University Press, 1965); George Washington
Harris’s *High Times and Hard Times: Sketches and Tales* (edited,
Vanderbilt University Press, 1967); *Agrarianism in American
Literature* (edited,
Odyssey Press, 1969); *Donald Davidson* (coauthor Thomas Daniel Young,
Twayne Publishers, 1971); the landmark three-volume *Handbook of American
Popular Culture* (edited, Greenwood Press, 1978-1981; 2nd ed., 1989); *Concise
Histories of American Popular Culture* (edited, Greenwood Press,
1982); *Handbook
of American Popular Literature* (edited, Greenwood Press, 1988); *Comics as
Culture* (University Press of Mississippi, 1990); *Faulkner, Sut, and Other
Southerners: Essays in Literary History* (Locust Hill Press, 1992);
*Perspectives
on American Culture: Essays on Humor, Literature, and the Popular Arts* (Locust
Hill Press, 1994); *Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip* (Ohio State
University Libraries, University Press of Mississippi, and Randolph-Macon
College, 1995); *Charles M. Schulz: Conversations* (edited, University
Press of Mississippi, 2000); *The Humor of the Old South* (coedited with
Edward J. Piacentino, University Press of Kentucky, 2001); *The Greenwood
Guide to American Popular Culture* (coedited with Dennis Hall, Greenwood
Press, 2002); *William Faulkner* (Overlook Duckworth, 2006);
*Literature* (editor,
University of North Carolina Press, 2008, volume 9 in *The New Encyclopedia
of Southern Culture*); Charles M. Schulz’s *My Life with Charlie
Brown* (edited,
University Press of Mississippi, 2010); and *Will Eisner:
Conversations* (edited,
University Press of Mississippi, 2011).
Tom published dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters. Among the
journals in which he published are *American Literature*, *American Studies
International*, the *International Journal of Comic Art*, the *Journal of
American Culture*, the *Journal of Ethnic Studies*, the *Journal of Popular
Culture*, the *Journal of Popular Film and Television*, the *Journal of the
Fantastic in the Arts*, *PMLA*, the *South Atlantic Review*, *Studies in
American Culture*, and *Studies in Popular Culture*. In addition, Tom
published articles in *Studies in American Humor* and edited that journal
for four years. He founded the journal *Resources for American Literary
Study* in 1971 and the book series “Studies in Popular Culture,” “Great
Comic Artists,” and “Conversations with Comic Artists” for the University
Press of Mississippi. He edited the book series “American Critical
Archives” for Cambridge University Press. He was a founder of the American
Humor Studies Association and the Southern Studies Forum of the European
Association for American Studies.
The M. Thomas Inge Papers are held as part of the Comic Arts Collection at
the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. Tom is profiled by Michael
Dunne in *Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies*, edited by Ray B. Browne and
Michael T. Marsden (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999).
Tom won numerous awards for his research, including the International
Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Award for Distinguished
Scholarship (2006), the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Richard Beale Davis Award for Distinguished Lifetime Service to Southern
Letters (2008), and the Popular Culture Association Lynn Bartholome Eminent
Scholar Award (2018).
Tom is survived by his wife, Donária Romeiro Carvalho Inge.
Read more about Tom here.
<https://www.cbr.com/m-thomas-inge-comics-professor-obituary/>
--
Michael A. Torregrossa (he/his/him), M.A.
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were--a *hero!* Strive forever to maintain the rule of *right*--of law and
*justice*--against those who live and rule by *might*."
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Oct. 1976)
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