Home > People > Faculty : Gary C Thomas
Specialties
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Wagner studies
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German literature 17th, 19th centuries
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gender/sexuality
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cultural musicology
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comedy, comic theory
Educational Background
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B.A.: German and Music, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 1966.
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Ph.D.: Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1973.
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M.A.: Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1968.
Publications
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Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. Thomas, Gary C., Co-Editor, Routledge, 1994.
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'Was George Frideric Handel Gay'? -- On Closet Questions and Cultural Politics. Thomas, Gary C., Queering the Pitch, 1994.
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Musical Rhetoric and Politics in the Early German Lied: Thomas, Gary C., Camden House, Music and German Literature, 1992.
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Dance Music and the Origins of the Dactylic Meter. Thomas, Gary C., Daphnis, Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur. Bd. 16, Heft 1-2, pp. 107-146, 1987.
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Constantin Christian Dedekind, Die Aelbianische Musen-Lust (1657). Thomas, Gary C., Historical-critical edition, Peter Lang, 1990.
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Men at the Keyboard: On Liminal Spaces and the Heterotopian Function of Music: Thomas, Gary C., University of California Press, Beyond the Soundtrack:Representing Music in Cinema, 2006.
Professional Activities
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
Awards
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Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001
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Arthur 'Red' Motley Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003
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John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, 2005
Courses Taught
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CSCL 1907 - Power
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CSCL 3172 - Music as Discourse
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CSCL 3175 - Comedy: Text and Theory
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CSCL 3472 - Gay Men and Homophobia in American Culture
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CSDS 8910 - Queer Theory
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CSCL 5835 - Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen": Music, Myth, Politics
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