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Thomas Glave

Visiting Professor 2008-2009 Professor, English Department, SUNY-Binghamton
Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Background

Thomas Glave is a writer and professor of English and creative writing at SUNY-Binghamton. He earned his bachelor’s from Bowdoin College and his MFA from Brown University in 1998.

Interests

Glave’s main areas of interest are contemporary Caribbean queer writing; Latin-American (queer and other) literature; Black British writers; literatures of testimony and human rights; francophone Caribbean literature in translation; and experimental fiction and creative nonfiction.

Admired for his “unique style and exploration of taboo, politically volatile topics,” he is the author of Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh, among other works. He is a dedicated activist for human rights worldwide and serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in the City University of New York (CUNY). 

As an MLK visiting professor at MIT, he was hosted by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, where he taught literature courses and gave public lectures.

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