Thomas W. Krise (born 1961)[1] is an American academic, former university administrator, and retired military officer.

[6][7] The son and grandson of U.S. Army medical service officers, he was born the youngest of three children of Elizabeth Ann Krise (née Bradt; 1928-2015) and Colonel Edward Fisher Krise (1924-2003)[8] on October 27, 1961, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

[9] Krise graduated in 1979 from All Saints Cathedral School on St Thomas, Virgin Islands.

He served more than twenty years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

He has served as general editor of the McNair Papers monograph series,[18] managing editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities,[19] and published numerous articles and other works, including Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777[20][21] and Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream,[22] the latter co-edited with Nicole Aljoe and Brycchan Carey.