Inge taught popular courses across a broad range of fields including American Studies, interdisciplinary humanities, Asian literature, Southern literature and culture, American humor and satire, and film.
Over more than 35 years at Randolph-Macon, Dr. President Payne once said he considered his naming of Tom Inge to the Blackwell Chair "the most significant academic contribution to R-MC made during tenure here as President." Inge joined the Randolph-Macon faculty as the Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of the Humanities. Ladell Payne, recruited Inge, a fellow Faulkner scholar, back to his alma mater. In 1984, Randolph-Macon's 13th president, Dr. Over the years, Inge donated his research materials, books, and original comic art to the VCU Libraries, where a special collection has been established in his name. He moved to Virginia Commonwealth University shortly after it was founded and chaired the English department.
in English and American literature from Vanderbilt University in 19, respectively, and went on to a distinguished teaching and research career at Vanderbilt University, Michigan State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Clemson University. It was at Michigan State in 1968 that he offered the first accredited course on American humor, introducing comic strips to the classroom and essentially opening up a new field of academic study.
Although he had wanted to be a cartoonist, he abandoned that goal for a love of literature and a desire to teach. in English and Spanish from Randolph-Macon in 1959. Dr. M. Thomas Inge, lauded scholar of American literature and culture, prolific writer, and treasured member of the Randolph-Macon College faculty, died on Saturday, May 15, 2021.Ī native of Newport News, Virginia, Professor Inge received in B.A.
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