Dr. Thomas M. Kitts, Professor of English and Chair of the
Division of English and Speech, is the author of Ray Davies:
Not Like Everybody Else and The Theatrical Life of George
Henry Boker. His articles and reviews have appeared in
various journals and periodicals, including the Journal of
Popular Culture, Mid-Atlantic Almanack, Popular Music and Society,
American Drama, the Popular Culture Review, and
The Daily Blues & Jazz, and various collections,
including, most recently, Sound Fabrics: Studies on the
Intermedial and Institutional Dimensions of Popular Music
(eds. Martin Butler, Arvi Sepp, and Patrick A. Burger). Kitts
is also the author of a play, published and staged, Gypsies: An
East Village Opera. With Michael J. Kraus, he co-edited
Living on a Thin Line: Crossing Aesthetic Borders with The
Kinks.
He is the author of several instructors’ manuals on literature
for McGraw-Hill and currently edits two journals: The Mid-Atlantic
Almanack for the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture
Association and, with Gary Burns, co-edits Popular Music and
Society, an international publication. He is also the editor
of the forthcoming anthology Literature and Work, and serves on the
national board for the Popular Culture Association and the American
Culture Association. He holds an undergraduate degree from
St. John’s University and graduate degrees from New York
University.