Thom Didato, MA
Associate Professor
Graduate Programs Advisor
Editing and Publishing
Literature in Translation
Education
- MA, Georgetown University
- BA, College of William and Mary
Research Interests
- Literary editing and publishing
- Digital publishing
- Russian literature in translation
- Undergraduate creative writing
Select Publications
- Lit Mag News Roundup: Q & A with Thom Didato, Editor of failbetter
- Online Literary Journals Come of Age: 15 Top Online Journal Editors Speak Thom Didato, editor, failbetter, Huffington Post.
- Interview with failbetter’s Publisher & Founding Editor Thom Didato
- A Writer & Writing Teacher’s Blog: Inside Hints
- With Alexander Steele. Gotham Writers’ Workshop Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York’s Acclaimed Creative Writing School. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004
Courses
- ENGL391: Topics in Literature: 20th Century Russian Fiction (in translation)
- ENGL480: Authors: Mikhail Bulgakov
- ENGL489: Literary Editing & Publishing
- ENGL670: Literary Editing & Publishing (graduate seminar)
Awards
- Previous recipient of both the VCU President’s Service Excellence Award and the VCU CHS Distinguished Advising Award.