is an English faculty member at Gaston College in Dallas, NC. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English from High Point University, his master’s in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and his doctorate in English literature from Manchester Metropolitan University. His dissertation, funded by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, was on the British author Anthony Burgess’s life and work, and, to date, he has published three academic articles on Burgess. His monograph, Anthony Burgess and America, was published by Manchester University Press in March 2025. At the moment, Dr. Thurley is working on two Burgess and Shakespeare projects that were recently funded by the American Council of Learned Societies’ (ACLS) Community College Faculty Research Fellowship in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library.
