Thomas Laughlin

Teaching and Research Interests
Victorian Literature; Romanticism; the gothic; utopian fiction; fantasy literature; science fiction; Modernism; queer literature; psychoanalysis; affect theory; ecocriticism; literary and critical theory; Punk Studies

Courses Taught
ENG100H Effective Writing
ENG101H How to Read Critically
ENG211H Introduction to the Novel
ENG238H Fantasy Literature
ENG259H Literature and Environmental Criticism
ENG269H Queer Writing
ENG273H Literatures of Immigration and Exile
ENG280H Critical Approaches to Literature
ENG325H The Victorian Novel
ENG380H History of Literary Theory
ENG384H Literature and Psychoanalysis
ENG392H Canadian Fiction
ENG396H Literary Theory Now
ENG414H Socialism, Aesthetics, Ecology
ENG416H Between Tragedy and Utopia

Publications 

Articles and Chapters

"Structures of Feeling: Raymond Williams’s Progressive Problemshift." Raymond Williams at 100. Ed. Paul Stasi. Rowman & Littlefield. (Forthcoming in 2021)

"Fog, Coal, Capitalism: Dickens's Energy Atmospherics and the Anthropocene." Resilience: A Journal for the Environmental Humanities 7.2-3 (2020): 132-56.

"George Eliot's Epic Syntax: History and Totality in Middlemarch." Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group 33.1-2 (2020): 1-30.

"The Double Life in The Cage: The Queering of the Social in Henry James's Late Short Fiction." The Henry James Review 31.2 (2010): 154-68.

Review Essays

"Crisis and Clarity: Fredric Jameson's The Antinomies of Realism, Affect, and the Problem of Representing Totality Today." Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group 32.2 (2019): 176-186.

"Anthropocene Marxism: John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett's Marx and the Earth." Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group 31.2 (2018): 149-156.