SUNY Niagara English Instructor Publishes in Arizona Quarterly

Dr. Eric Thomas, Instructor of English at SUNY Niagara, recently published an article in Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory (Vol. 82, No. 1, Spring 2026), a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press and recognized as a leading venue for scholarship in American literature.

His article, “Pain and Principle in Edith Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree: Testing the Ethical Imagination of the American Novel,” examines Wharton’s 1907 novel through questions of bodily pain and moral decision-making, contributing to scholarly conversations in American literature and the health humanities.

Dr. Thomas’s article appears alongside work by faculty at Johns Hopkins, Tufts, Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago, placing SUNY Niagara in distinguished company.