Cathy Thomas
Cathy Thomas
Assistant Professor
Specialization
Dr. Cathy Thomas is a creative writer and scholar invested in womanist and black feminist pedagogy, practice, critique, and play.
Education
She received her PhD in Literature at University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Bio
She studies Afrodiasporic Literature across genres, especially speculative fiction, Caribbean literature & culture, comic books, and science & technology studies. Her work agitates against androcentric modernity and antiblack humanism. Prior to academia, she work in a genetics lab, at a neuropsychiatric center focused on mindfulness, in Hollywood, and on HIV clinical research.