University of Connecticut

Faculty Member, Nursing

Associate Professor-in-Residence

School of Nursing

About

Dr. Thomas Lawrence Long, associate professor-in-residence in the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut, has for over two decades enjoyed a career as a scholar, writer, editor, and writing coach in higher education, including universities and community colleges. He has published a book (AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic) and articles on topics in the medical humanities (literary and cultural representations of the body, sexuality, and disease), has served as editor-in-chief of an international literary journal (Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly, published by Haworth/Taylor & Francis), and has been a consultant for individual, business, and government clients. His PhD is in English (with a specialization in early American studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania); he has two MA degrees (one in English from the University of Illinois, the other in Theology from the Catholic University of America). He is a member of: the Modern Language Association; the American Studies Association; the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS); the International Writing Centers Association; the International Academy of Nursing Editors; the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing; and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, as well as a member of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities.

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