Thomas Warren Krise

Background

Thomas Warren Krise was born on October 27, 1961, in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, United States, to Edward Fisher and Elizabeth Ann Krise.

Education

In 1983, Krise received a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy. In 1986, he also received a Modern Sciences and Arts at Central Michigan University, and a Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1989. In 1995, Thomas received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Career

Krise served more than twenty years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served as a flight commander in the Strategic Air Command, on the faculty of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, as a senior military fellow of the Institute for National Strategic Studies in Washington, as vice director of the National Defense University Press, and as founder and first director of the Air Force Humanities Institute.

Formerly, he was dean of the College of the Pacific, the arts and sciences college of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

He has served as general editor of the McNair Papers monograph series, managing editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, and published numerous articles and other works. He also was the President Emeritus and Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, USA.

Achievements

• Thomas W. Krise is known as the President Emeritus and Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, USA.
  
  He is a former Fulbright Scholar at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

Works

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  • Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777

    (Although the colonies in the West Indies were as importan...)

    1999
  • Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream

    (The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a regi...)

    2018

Membership

Krise was the founding president of the Early Caribbean Society and past president of the Society of Early Americanists.

Interests

• Travel

• Sport & Clubs

  sailing, skiing, hiking, scuba diving

Connections

On September 5, 1987, Thomas married Patricia Lynn Love.

Father:

Edward Fisher Krise

Mother:

Elizabeth Ann Krise

Spouse:

Patricia Lynn Love