Thom Waddill
Instructor of Humanities
Thom@kastnerhill.com
Thom Waddill graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina in 2019 with a B.A. in English with Honors. In college, Thom explored his love of creative writing and literary theory, edited the campus literary magazine, and studied interwar Modernism and the contemporary English novel for a semester abroad at Oxford University. In his senior year, he wrote his honors thesis on the politics of language in George Saunders’ short fiction. Since graduating, he’s reviewed prose submissions for the national literary journal Adroit and continued to write fiction and poetry.
Thom has been the singer of dance-rock band Font since he co-founded the band in 2021. Font has since played across the country and is preparing to release its first record in the summer of 2024. The band was picked up as support for UK band Yard Act’s 2024 North American tour and has landed spots in festivals such as Austin City Limits, Levitation Fest, and the Pitchfork Music Festivals in London and Paris.
Outside of KHL and making music, Thom journals, reads, paints, watches movies, cooks, and talks to his cat. He is excited to develop personal connections with students, and knows that learning is always improved when tutor and student can find common ground. Thom knows from personal experience what a comfort books can be to teenagers in a time of pressure and transition, and he hopes that demystifying the subject and sharing his own love for language can help students develop their own relationship to reading.