Thomas Dai

Thomas Dai is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Brown University. Aside from his academic work, he is currently working on a collection of linked essays about travel, queerness, and the many ways that geography and identity intersect. Some of his recent writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, CityLab, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.

https://thomasndai.com/

Reinventing the Transformative Vision of America in Nabokov’s Cross-Country Chronicles

Thomas Dai on the Author's Butterfly-Hunting Excursions and His Own Relationship to the Road and American Identity

August 2, 2021 By Thomas Dai

How Contemporary Poetry Treats the Old Myths of the American Railroad

Thomas Dai on the Poems of Kai Carlson-Wee and Jenny Xie

July 17, 2019 By Thomas Dai

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