Dr. Thomas McGuire is a Professor of English at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He teaches war literature, poetry, Irish literature, and world literature. His scholarly and creative writing has appeared most recently in New Hibernia Review, North American Review, Southeast Review, and War, Literature & the Arts (WLA). In 2014, he completed twenty-four years of active duty in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in the rank of Colonel after serving in locations ranging from Alabama to Ankara, Turkey. Since 2011, he's served as Poetry Editor for WLA. In 2008, he received a Fulbright Lecture/Research grant to Ireland. In 2007 he was named Colorado Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. He's currently completing two book manuscripts, a work of scholarship entitled Violence and the Work of Translation in the Seamus Heaney Archive and a collection of original poetry entitled On the Way to Magpiety.

Ph.D., English Language and Literature (Linda Gregerson, dissertation committee chair), Fields: Poetics, Irish & Postcolonial Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. (2004)

M.A., History (Maxine Jones, thesis advisor), Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla. (1997)

M.A., English Language & Literature, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, Calif. (1995)

B.A., History and Philosophy, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif. (1988)

Professor, Department of English & Fine Arts, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (2016-Present)

Air Force Humanities Institute, Director, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (2013-Present)

Multiple Teaching Assignments, Department of English & Fine Arts, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (1995-2016)

Fulbright Research/Lecture Grant, Ireland

Carnegie Foundation Colorado Professor of the Year

United States Air Force Academy 2007 Professor of the Year

Outstanding Academy Educator, 1997

Poetics

Irish Literature

Postcolonial Studies

Translation Studies