"Since 1993, as an adjunct faculty member, Thomas has successfully developed and taught undergraduate film studies courses at such leading Colorado universities and colleges as the University of Colorado at Boulder, Denver University, Regis University, Metropolitan State University of Denver, the Colorado Film School, and Chapman University (Denver).

Ranging from lecture sections of 200-plus students to senior seminars of 15 or less, these courses have included Introduction to Film Studies, Film Criticism, Film History I & 2, Women and Film, Contemporary Film and Culture, European Film History, Film Noir, The French New Wave, Development of Film Expression, and Film Theory (senior-level seminar). He currently teaches film at Mott College in Michigan. Faculty duties have included and tutoring advising students, holding office hours, developing library bibliographical holdings in film, and judging student film shows. In addition, from 1997 to 2008 I developed and taught regular adult-education courses on film, art, and television history at the Denver Art Museum.

Thomas also has regularly written on film, theater, and television for such U.S. print publications as the Chicago Tribune, Boulder Weekly (CO), Pulitzer/Lerner newspapers (Chicago), Fort Collins Now (CO), and Village Voice Media’s Westword weekly (Denver). In 2006, as Boulder Weekly film critic and associate editor, he received both the first- and second-place awards from the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for Arts and Entertainment Criticism. In 2005 he received a third-place award for Best Headline Writing from Denver Press Club, and in 1998 he won an Excellence in Journalism Award from the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

His film reviews have been quoted in numerous publications and websites, including Rotten Tomatoes, AltWeeklies, the New York Public Library, the Daily Beast, Hong Kong Daily, as well as in Named and Shamed: The World's Worst and Wittiest Movie Reviews. He" less...