Paul Thomas

P.L. Thomas, Professor of Education (Furman University, Greenville SC), taught high school English in rural South Carolina before moving to teacher education. He is currently the poetry editor for English Journal (National Council of Teachers of English) and author of Black Widow Underestimated and Hypersexualized: “I am what I am.” (Brill, 2025), How to End the Reading War and Serve the Literacy Needs of All Students (2nd ed.; IAP, 2022), and Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination: Essays Exploring What ‘Teaching Writing’ Means (IAP, 2019). NCTE named Thomas the 2013 George Orwell Award winner. He co-edited (with Chris Goering) Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America (Brill, 2018), receiving the 2019 Divergent Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies. Follow his work @plthomasEdD, @plthomasedd.bsky.social, and The Reliable Narrator (https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/).