Virginia Thomas

Virginia Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Art History at Providence College. Her research focuses on the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and visual culture, particularly how race shapes the legibility of gendered and sexual identities.

Education:

• PhD in American Studies from Brown University
• MA in Public Humanities from Brown University

Her book project, Dark Trees: Visual Grammars of Family and Lynching Aesthetics, has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She also founded the Queer StoRIes Project, an intergenerational oral history initiative pairing LGBTQ youth and elders in Rhode Island.

Research Areas:

• Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Visual Culture
• Queer Studies
• Oral History
• Critical Race Theory