Inge, M. Thomas.

• 1936, March 18: Born, Newport News, Va.
• 1959: B.A., Randolph-Macon College
• 1960: M.A., Vanderbilt University
• 1962 - 1964 : Instructor of English, Vanderbilt University
• 1964: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• 1964 - 1969 : Assistant Professor/Associate Professor of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
• 1967 - 1968 : Fulbright lecturer, University of Salamanca, Spain
• 1969 - 1980 : Associate Professor/Professor/Department Chair of English, Virginia Commonwealth University
• 1970 - 1979 : General Editor, American Critical Tradition series (David Lewis) and Founding Editor, Resources for American Literary Studies
• 1971: Fulbright lecturer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1973 - 1976 : General Editor, Research Guides in English (St. Martin's)
• 1974 - 1980 : Founding Editor, American Humor
• 1977 - : General Editor, Research Guides in Popular Culture (Greenwood)
• 1978: Editor, Handbook of American Popular Culture, Volume 1 (Greenwood); President, American Humor Studies Association
• 1979: Editor, Bartleby the Inscrutable (Archon); Fulbright lecturer, Moscow State University, U. S. S. R.
• 1980: Editor, Handbook of American Popular Culture, Volume 2 (Greenwood)
• 1980 - : Professor/Department Head of English, Clemson University
• 1981: Editor, Handbook of American Popular Culture, Volume 3 and Concise Histories of American Popular Culture (Greenwood)
• 1988: Editor, Handbook of American Popular Literature (Greenwood)
• 1989: Editor, Handbook of American Popular Culture, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged, 3 vols.

From the guide to the M. Thomas Inge Papers, 1978-1982, 1988-1989, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)