Thomas Vargish

Thomas Vargish was an American scholar of literature. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Biography

Vargish was born on February 13, 1939, in Granville, New York. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1960. That year, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Vargish's brother, Stephan Vargish, was also a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Dartmouth College, University of Maryland, [Baltimore County], University of Gothenburg, and the United States [Air Force Academy].
Vargish earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 to work on a book on the religious background of Victorian fiction. He has also authored books on relativity and cubism with Dartmouth physicist Delo Mook, father of political strategist Robby Mook.