A member of the English faculty at the University of South Carolina Aiken since 1976, Tom Mack currently holds the G. L. Toole Chair. Over his long career, he has written over 100 articles and chapters about American literature and American cultural history. Furthermore, since 1990, he has contributed a weekly column in the AIKEN STANDARD on a wide range of topics in the humanities. For his work as a cultural affairs columnist, he received the 2013 Media Award from the Greater Augusta Arts Council.He is the founding editor of THE OSWALD REVIEW, the first international refereed journal of undergraduate research in the discipline of English; all articles published in the journal are available in digitalized form on library databases hosted by EBSCO Publishing and the USC libraries: www.scholarcommons.sc.edu/tor/.Dr. Mack is currently chair of the board of governors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the organization responsible for managing the state's literary hall of fame.He has four books in print: CIRCLING THE SAVANNAH and HIDDEN HISTORY OF AIKEN COUNTY (both from The History Press), A SHARED VOICE (Lamar University Press), and THE SOUTH CAROLINA ENCYCLOPEDIA GUIDE TO SOUTH CAROLINA WRITERS (University of South Carolina Press).A SHARED VOICE has been selected as a 2013 FOREWORD MAGAZINE Book of the Year Award Finalist in the short fiction category.In 2014, Tom Mack received the Governor's Award in the Humanities at a special luncheon hosted by the Humanities Council SC at the Columbia Hilton Hotel and Conference Center.He is currently working on a new book on key events and personalities in the history of Augusta, Georgia.