R. Thomas Lyons
thomas.lyons@colorado.edu

Research & Teaching Interests

  • Medieval literature
  • Bible as literature
  • Composition and pedagogy

Education

  • Ph.D., Washington University, 1972
  • M.A., Washington University, 1964
  • Ph. L., St. Louis University (Philosophy), 1961
  • A.B., St. Louis University, 1960

Publications

  • “Computer-assisted Instruction in English Composition,” Pipeline, Fall, 1981
  • Expository Writing Handbook, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1981
  • With Anne Lyons and Michael Preston, A Complete Concordance to Edward Lear’s Complete Nonsense, Norwood, Pa., February, 1980
  • “Joshua Fishman on the Sociology of Language and Ethnicity,” Sociolinguistics Newsletter, Summer 1977
  • With Michael Preston, A Complete Concordance to Two “Chaucerian” Poems: “The 
  • Floure and the Leafe” and “The Assembly of Ladies,” Ann Arbor, 1975
  • With Allan Franklin, “Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Classic’ Presentation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Bulletin, November, 1973