Cathy Thomas

Assistant Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara

Cathy Thomas is a writer, filmmaker, and creative critical scholar whose work on the “Black Fantastic” and decolonial feminist thought is enriched by discovering modes of play and resistance in comic books, literature, and through cosplay, while “wining up” at Caribbean Carnival. As she approaches tenure, she is juggling 3 novels, 2 comic books, 1 trade-book collaboration, 1 scholarly monograph, and 1 experimental textile+digital+sound art installation for a 2028 museum exhibition, all in various states of completion, delay, ecstasy, and exhaustion. She is an assistant professor of English at UCSB and the Director of the UCSB Creative Critical Writing Initiative.

Photo credit: Carrie Rosema Photography