Stacy Thompson joined the English Department in 2002. He earned his B.A from the University of Michigan in 1988 and then worked for a corporate publishing house in Boston and in New York City from 1988-1991. In 1991, he left publishing and worked in a small bookstore in Michigan from 1992-1993. He started graduate school in 1993 and earned an M.A. from Northeastern University in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2000. He has taught in universities since 1993.
Stacy's teaching interests include:
* Marxism
* Psychoanalysis
* Film Studies
* Utopian Studies
Stacy's scholarly work includes the following publications:
“The Dude and the New Left” in The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies, Eds. Edward Comentale and Aaron Jaffe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. (essay/book chapter)
“Consumer Ethics in Thank You for Smoking. Film-Philosophy, 13.1 (2009): 53-67. (article)
“The Business of Death: Death and Utopia on TV.” Utopian Studies, 17.2 (December 2006): 491-514. (article)
“Tentative Utopias,” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 10.3 (December 2005): 269-285. (article)
“Punk Cinema” in Post-Punk Cinema, Ed. Nicholas Rombes, Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh Press, 2005. (book chapter)
“Crass Commodities,” Popular Music and Society, 27.3 (2004): 307-322. (article)
Punk Productions: Unfinished Business. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. (book)
“Punk Cinema,” Cinema Journal, 43. 2 (Winter 2004): 47-66. (article)
“Organizing the Cynics,” the minnesota review, 55-57 (Fall 2003): 295-302. (article)
“Punk’s Not Dead,” the minnesota review, 52-53 (Spring 2001): 299-307. (review essay)
“Market Failure: Punk Economics, Early and Late,” College Literature (Spring 2001): 48-64. (article)
“The South,” Alaska Quarterly Review (Spring and Summer 1991): 35-39. (short story)
