Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan hails from Gardner, Massachusetts, located about an hour East from Amherst and an hour West of Boston. It is also located North of Worcester. His hometown was the home of the world's largest chair until Japan built a larger one.

Thomas's interests include poetry, critical theory, information studies, book making, bicycles, sountrack composition, libraries, and ghosts. Some of his music can be heard in tandem with moving images created by William Galperin at http://www.vimeo.com/willgalperin. Other musical pursuits include playing an assortment of instruments in the band Pale Cowboy with Karl Helander, Phoebe Berkel and Karl's cousin Aaron. Thomas and Ryan Mihaly have also begun bringing tiny sounds together as Farm Cat.

During his first year at Hampshire College Thomas lived in Merrill C113 with The Reverend Richard "Scotty" Gillmer.

Fall 2009 saw Thomas moving into the Tyler House at Amherst College campus, as Hampshire overenrolled first years and ran out of beds for current students.

Janterm 2010 Thomas moved into Dad City, an off campus house with Jack Callahan, Liv Lee, Ari Cowan, Jayme Winell, and UMass grad student Caleb True. The house was robbed early in February and Caleb soon moved out.

= Course Work =

First Year
Fall 2008


 * Books, Technology, and History from Manuscript to Cyberincunabula
 * Mysteries of Petersburg
 * Philosophy of Mind
 * The Novel in the United States: 1900-1945

January 2009


 * The Critical Essay

Spring 2009


 * Through the Twisted Mirror: Gogol and Nabokov, and Other Eccentrics
 * Biopower, Biopolitics, and Bare Life
 * Topics in Renewable Energy
 * Let's Talk: Directors and Designers

Second Year
Fall 2009


 * 1950's: Cold War and the Birth of the Cool
 * 1950's: Literature/American Studies Writing Seminar
 * Intermediate Poetry Writing
 * Modern British and American Poetry at Amherst College

January 2010


 * Contextualizing Soviet Cinema (Audit)

Spring 2010


 * Poetry and Childhood
 * Literature, Violence, and the State
 * Memory at Amherst College
 * Rilke at Amherst College