M. King Adkins

King Adkins is currently (Spring 2017) an associate professor of humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where he teaches courses in writing, literature, and the humanities. He is the author of a book on new wave music, New Wave: Image is Everything (Palgrave, 2015) and is currently at work on a book-length study of television, tentatively titled Television Landscapes.

Adkins received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia in 2007, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech, before joining the faculty at SD Mines.