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Academic Support Center Director Thomas Cole featured in the British Medical Journal

By Marketing and Communications Staff

Thomas Cole IICongratulations to Thomas Cole, II, director of Southwest Tennessee Community College’s academic support center, on the publication of his article, “The Production of Medicoethical Misconduct: Medical Ethics and Vivisection in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science,” in the British Medical Journal.

Cole earned his bachelor’s degree in English and German and his master’s and doctorate degrees in English from the University of Florida, where he studied Victorian literature and medicine. He has a passion for writing about Victorian, Gothic, and science fiction subject matter as well as popular culture, and his works have appeared in several journals, including Genders, Medical Humanities, and Victorian Popular Fictions.

His first article,  “(The) Bikini: EmBodying the Bomb,” appeared in Academia, and looked at the early images of the atomic bomb in correlation to the bikini bathing suit. Bikini Atoll is in the North Pacific Ocean and is famous for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests, which occurred between 1946 and 1958. 

Cole began his career at the College in 2015 as the coordinator of the academic support center. In addition to his current directorship, he teaches English as an adjunct instructor. He often shares his enthusiasm for the written word with his students and why strong writing is essential in defining one’s voice and intention. 

“I like learning from my students; they teach me just as much as I teach them, and I like to show them that the writing process is difficult for everybody, even someone like me who has finished a Ph.D. in English where writing is quite literally the thing we teach,” Cole said. “I tell my students about pre-writing, writing, revising, and editing. We all have to do it when we write essays, reports, or even emails.”