Tom Whalen

Tom Whalen (born October 28, 1948) is an American writer and scholar.

Whalen graduated from the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) in 1970 with a B.A. in English, and earned a M.A. in Writing from Hollins College (Virginia) in 1971.

He attended Tulane University in 1974 and the University of California, Berkeley, in 1981. In 2008 he received a Ph.D. in American Literature from Freiburg University, Germany where he was a Visiting Professor in North American Studies. Whalen also was a Visiting Professor in American Film and Literature 2006-09 at the University of Stuttgart.

In 2008, he taught a film class at the Staatliche Akademie der Künste Stuttgart.

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