Tom Martin

Congratulations to Tom Martin, who reports the following good news: “Yesterday I accepted an offer for a one-year teaching contract at James Madison University, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, teaching a 4/4 load of American Literature from the Civil War to the present and a Great Works course that I recently put together based upon E. M. Forster's four ‘prophetic’ novelists: Emily Bronte, D. H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Herman Melville. The job doesn't pay much, but it’s more than double what I’ve been living on for the past eight years and located in a lush landscape on a beautiful campus; it should be perfectly suitable as a launching pad for the next cycle.”